Poverty measurement revisited from a multidimensional perspective among Universiti Sains Malaysia's B40 poor students
Poverty has been dominantly an economic concept and dealt with income or expenditure in Malaysia. In many parts of the world, widespread support surface for the application of a multidimensional approach to poverty. Yet, in practice the vast majority of empirical work on poverty uses a unidime...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13271/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13271/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13271/1/29099-89090-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | Poverty has been dominantly an economic concept and dealt with income or expenditure in
Malaysia. In many parts of the world, widespread support surface for the application of a
multidimensional approach to poverty. Yet, in practice the vast majority of empirical work on
poverty uses a unidimensional yardstick to judge a person’s well-being, usually expenditure
or income per capita. While economic well-being, capability, political, and civic/cultural
inclusion are integral parts of a multidimensional concept of poverty, a proper
operationalization as well as comprehensive conceptualization of poverty based on
multidimensional perspective is still lacking in Malaysia. With the introduction of the
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) this paper aims at bridging the gap between
development and national policy from a multidimensional perspective. As a review paper,
this study intends develop a coherent framework for measuring multidimensional poverty
index in a smaller scale among the poor B40 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) students.
Hence, by understanding the root causes of poverty as well as applying into an academic
environment, the study will be able to bridge the gap between student’s academic
performance with their quality of life from three major components; education, health and
standard of living. The methodology of this paper is based solely on document research of
secondary data. The findings of this study are envisaged to ascertain to what extent
multidimensional poverty index is valid vis-a-vis the unidimensional measurement approach
in the near future for a bigger scale research, both in the state of Penang and other states in
Malaysia. |
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