Chapter 26 Self-grading Quizzes

Measuring and Evaluating Poverty
. To help gain an understanding of the different concepts and measures of poverty, there is a need to ________.

. ________ undertook the first comprehensive poverty studies were undertaken in England around the turn of the twentieth century.

. Given the complexities involved in the welfare measurement, a degree of common practice has emerged to determine the amount of monetary resources available. An important element of that practice in ________ countries is to consider how much someone consumes or spends, rather than earns, as income.

. The poverty severity index is calculated by ________.

. Human development index includes all of the following except ________.

. Multidimensional Poverty Index ________.

. The importance of the common practice to determine the amount of monetary resources available is important for the following reasons: ________.

. Critics of absolute poverty lines have argued that ________.

. Shortcomings of the monetary approach mostly relate to the following except its assumption that ________.

. In "Development as Freedom," Amartya Sen sets the ________ apart from the monetary approach.

. Given the focus on individual values and freedom to live up to such values, Amartya Sen has always been opposed to ________.

. Venn diagrams shows that groups of children being either monetary or multi-dimensionally poor are largest in ________.

. Arguments for the importance of including people's voices in development processes were pioneered by ________.

. Poverty measurement is important ________.

. If someone's welfare is lower than the ________, that person is considered poor.

. The shift from economic means toward having the capabilities to achieve and live the lives that people value is know as ______________.

. ______________ is known as the father of poverty measurement.

. The "capability approach" was developed by _________________.

. The "capability approach" was first stated in _____________.

. The Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 was awarded to __________.

. Monetary approaches focus on _______________.

. The monetary poverty measurement is considered an indirect approach because __________.

. Sustainable Development Goal # ___________ calls for ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.

. Sustainable Development Goals acknowledge that poverty ___________.

. By 2030, poverty must be reduced ___________.

. The first comprehensive poverty studies were undertaken in England around the turn of the twentieth century.

. The division between monetary and multi-dimensional approaches to poverty measurement is informed by normative, conceptual, and empirical underpinnings.

. The poverty gap index provides insight into how severe poverty is.

. The measurement of multi-dimensional poverty can be said to follow from heated debates around how GDP impacts poverty.

. Welfare is usually established at the household level.

. The "food poverty" line is very meagre. It represents the amount required to meet caloric requirements assuming that all household income is spent on food.

. The construction of multi-dimensional measures is scrutinized to the same (if not greater) degree as monetary measures are.

. Practice around multi-dimensional poverty measurement is much more harmonized than monetary measurement.

. Capability approach addresses poverty as the deprivation of basic capabilities rather than merely as lowness of incomes.

. The poverty line represents a minimum of food and non-food expenditures based on the consumption pattern of the second quartile of the consumption distribution.

. HDI presents an important shift from focusing solely on social indicators for assessing global and regional progress towards development.

. Monetary and multi-dimensional poverty approaches are the two facets of the same coin. Not too much difference between them.

. Rwanda has seen widespread economic growth and great advances in both monetary and multi-dimensional poverty reduction.

. The use of poverty measures for targeting policies and programs is not limited to monetary approaches.

. Measuring poverty is really not a monitor of progress towards goals and targets in terms of development policy and poverty reduction.

. Poverty must be one of the least frequently used words in international development and development studies.

. Someone living in Sierra Leone will probably give you the same answer about the definition of poverty compared to someone living in Switzerland.

. If you were able to ask someone a century ago about what "living in poverty" meant, you would have received an answer very different from the one you would get from someone asked the same question today.

. The definition of poverty will change according to geography, time, and age.

. Poverty as conceived in the 19th century in England refers to hunger and harsh living conditions.

. The first comprehensive poverty studies were undertaken in Sierra Leona around the turn of the 20th century.

. Benjamin Rowntree highlighted that urban poverty was a phenomenon exclusive to the metropolis of London.

. Charles Booth and Benjamin Rowntree undertook totally different studies about poverty in rural areas.

. For Peter Townsend, poverty was no longer about being able to meet a basic minimum level of living standards but about being able to live and do as others in society.

. The "capability approach" shifted the focus away from value toward economic means.

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