Construction of Gender Sensitive Poverty Line Based on Local Perception: Evidence from Rural India
55 Pages Posted: 13 May 2015
Date Written: May 12, 2015
Abstract
This study employed participatory well-being ranking (PWBR) exercise with men and women separately for generating gendered poverty line in West Bengal state of India. Men and women differed in a number of themes related to the experience of poverty. The gender disaggregated qualitative information collected through PWBR from eight village segments of North 24 Parganas district of India was quantified to arrive at poverty lines followed by the generation of poverty statistics. The differential gender perception resulted in different poverty statistics for men and women.
Keywords: poverty, poverty line, participatory wealth ranking, local perception, gender, India
JEL Classification: J16, I32
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