Dimensions of subjective poverty
Subjective well-being from a developing country perspective: anti-development in an upside down world
Subjective poverty from a Southern perspective
Authors:
J. Yamamoto
Publisher:
ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2008
Some argue that Northern academic tradition on subjective poverty can get very far disconnected with the reality of a developing country. This paper provides a Southern academic’s perspective on subjective poverty. The author examines whether third world countries have different subjective realities than those from first world countries.
A discussion on well-being in Peru is presented in three main areas:
- methodological: an alternative approach to well-being that does not rely reliance on externally dictated theories and indicators is proposed
- empirical: results are presented with an unconventional theory of needs and well-being model
- ethical: questions address whether international development is a post-modern means of benevolent imperialism, and how the role of developed countries’ well-being theories and research programs in this process
