Title
Implementing a Group-Specific Multidimensional Poverty Measure: The Case of Persons with Disabilities in Peru
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Routledge
Abstract
We contribute to the literature on multidimensional poverty and people with disabilities by developing a group-specific, comprehensive, and policy-relevant measure of multidimensional poverty adapted to exploring deprivations within the group of persons with disabilities in Peru. Based on the Alkire-Foster method, we calculated multidimensional poverty estimates using data from the first Specialised National Survey on Disability in Peru collected in 2012. Our measure included eight dimensions, four of which were operationalised using disability-specific indicators, of which, in turn, three involved deprivation criteria specific to different categories of disability. Our results showed that 41.1% of the population with disabilities in Peru suffer deprivations in at least three out of the eight dimensions, whereas rural populations, women, indigenous peoples, persons with severe disabilities, and persons with communication disabilities face the highest levels of poverty. Additionally, we identified rural indigenous women as the poorest subgroup within the overall group of persons with disabilities in Peru with a poverty incidence of 88.1%. Our results suggested that eradicating multidimensional poverty among persons with disabilities in Peru will involve implementing reasonable accommodations to existing policies and creating new disability-specific policies focused on the poorest subgroups within this population.
Start page
355
End page
388
Volume
21
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Temas sociales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092161739
Source
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
ISSN of the container
19452829
Sponsor(s)
This research was supported by the Vice-rectorate of Research of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) under the 2016 Concurso Anual de Proyectos de Investigación. We are grateful to Micaela Salcedo for her support as research assistant in this project. Also, we would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers who made insightful comments to previous versions of this article.
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