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11873_02 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
the standard of living, also this approach does not measure the quality of
life.
- Non income-based approach is a broader definition of poverty that
provides additional information, which reflects the actual experience of
the poor; their perceptions of poverty and their own self-determined
concepts and measures of poverty. This definition accounts also for
human development in terms of education; health and nutritional status
as well as other aspects like security and safety nets.
- The Capability Poverty Measurement (CPM) 9 is an application of non
income-based definition of poverty, and it is used to complement rather
than to substitute the income-based definition of poverty. Although this
definition is used only by a minority of respondents, Egypt has
introduced, in its published EHDR 1996, the capability measurement of
poverty in order to complement the income-based measurement.
- The Deprivation Index is another composite index which consists of nine
indicators reflecting the standard of living and welfare, this Index was
constructed by (IEC 1996) based on the result of Priority Survey
conducted by CAPMAS for the Social Fund for Development (SFD), and
it was published in EHRD 1997/98.
- A Standard of Living Index was newly constructed as a broader measure
of living conditions, and it is ranged from 0 to 100. It is comprised of five
dimensions in order to capture different emphases in the definition of
poverty by various analysts: per-capita income, per-capita expenditures,
an index of economic security/vulnerability, an index of housing
conditions, and an index of affordability of basic needs.
9 This was recently introduced by UNDP in the HDR 1996.
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