Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty
Most governments and policy makers define poverty by income. Yet poor people define their poverty more broadly, including lack of education, health, housing, empowerment, employment, personal security and more. As such, no one factor is able to capture all the aspects that contribute to poverty, mak...
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ftuloxford:oai:ora.ox.ac.uk:uuid:154b3818-0909-432c-8707-a1adf4b1c40a 2024-09-30T14:35:03+00:00 Social isolation and its relationship to multidimensional poverty Samuel, K Alkire, S Hammock, J Mills, C Zavaleta, D 2015-05-13 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:154b3818-0909-432c-8707-a1adf4b1c40a eng eng https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:154b3818-0909-432c-8707-a1adf4b1c40a info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Working paper 2015 ftuloxford 2024-09-06T07:47:28Z Most governments and policy makers define poverty by income. Yet poor people define their poverty more broadly, including lack of education, health, housing, empowerment, employment, personal security and more. As such, no one factor is able to capture all the aspects that contribute to poverty, making poverty a multidimensional concept. One dimension of poverty that has been often overlooked is social connectedness. This paper argues that social connectedness is an important missing ingredient of multidimensional poverty, with social isolation being a central component. We illustrate the concepts of social isolation and social connectedness using examples from South Africa and Mozambique, and the First Nations of Canada, as well as the work of Special Olympics International around the world. Report First Nations ORA - Oxford University Research Archive Canada |
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Most governments and policy makers define poverty by income. Yet poor people define their poverty more broadly, including lack of education, health, housing, empowerment, employment, personal security and more. As such, no one factor is able to capture all the aspects that contribute to poverty, making poverty a multidimensional concept. One dimension of poverty that has been often overlooked is social connectedness. This paper argues that social connectedness is an important missing ingredient of multidimensional poverty, with social isolation being a central component. We illustrate the concepts of social isolation and social connectedness using examples from South Africa and Mozambique, and the First Nations of Canada, as well as the work of Special Olympics International around the world. |
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