Journal
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
Volume 138, Issue 1, Pages 225-244Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1650-0
Keywords
Decent living; Multidimensional Poverty; Human wellbeing; Human development; Reference budget; Fair wage
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- European Research Council [637462]
- European Research Council (ERC) [637462] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We define a set of universal, irreducible and essential set of material conditions for achieving basic human wellbeing, along with indicators and quantitative thresholds, which can be operationalized for societies based on local customs and preferences. We draw support for this decent living standard (DLS) from different accounts of basic justice, including the capability approach and basic needs. The DLS goes beyond existing multidimensional poverty indicators by comprehensively addressing living conditions and the means of social participation. The DLS offers a normative basis to develop minimum wage and reference budgets, and to assess the environmental impacts, such as climate change, of eradicating poverty.
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