Construction of Gender Sensitive Poverty Line Based on Local Perception: Evidence from Rural India

55 Pages Posted: 13 May 2015

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Rupak Goswami

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

Saikat Majumdar

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University

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

Suggested Citation

Goswami, Rupak and Majumdar, Saikat, Construction of Gender Sensitive Poverty Line Based on Local Perception: Evidence from Rural India (May 12, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2605633 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2605633

Rupak Goswami (Contact Author)

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University ( email )

Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur
Kolkata, West Bengal 700103
India

Saikat Majumdar

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University ( email )

Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur
Kolkata, West Bengal 700103
India

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