Individual Deprivation Measure

The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) is a way of measuring poverty that was developed over four years by the IWDA.[1] It measures poverty on an individual level as opposed to a household level.[2] The IDM was designed to avoid gender biases built into existing poverty measures.[3] The household method assumes that everyone is equally poor but an organization called ONE claims that it is not and that 70% of the poor are female.[4] The goal of the Individual Deprivation Measure is to create a public standard of deprivation that is comparable across contexts, revealing gender disparity, and guiding antipoverty policy and programs.[5]

Two of the authors of The Individual Deprivation Measure: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement, Pogge and Jaggar realized that statistics used to demonstrate the feminization of poverty reflected cultural and gender biases. They set out to create a non-arbitrary metric for poverty that could be used to measure the feminist aspect of poverty.[6]

Australia has used the Individual Deprivation Measure. They discussed the measure and the results at the UN on March 18, 2015.[7] Scott Wisor stated that monetary poverty measurement is not adequate to count poverty and should be complimented with multidimensional measurements.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Introducing the Individual Deprivation Measure". International Women's Developing Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "THE INDIVIDUAL DEPRIVATION MEASURE: A NEW APPROACH TO MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, GENDER SENSITIVE POVERTY MEASUREMENT". CROP. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "A New, Gender-sensitive Poverty Metric". ASAP. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Green, Duncan. "Lifting the lid on the household: A new way to measure individual deprivation". The World Bank. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Wisor, Scott; Bessell, Sharon; Castillo, Fatima; Crawford, Joanne; Donaghue, Kieran; Hunt, Janet; Jaggar, Alison; Liu, Amy; Pogge, Thomas. "The Individual Deprivation Measure" (PDF). Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations Launched by Expert Group Including GJP Director Thomas Pogge". Yale Global Justice Program. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Individual Deprivation Measure: Transforming how we measure poverty - CSW59 Side Event". The United Nations Live and on Demand. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Lifting the lid on the household: A new way to measure individual deprivation". Managing for Impact. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
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