Clausen Jhonatan, Barrantes Nicolas
Department of Economics, Institute of Human Development of Latin America, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 1801 Universitaria Avenue, Lima, 15088 Peru.
Appl Res Qual Life. 2022;17(6):3253-3283. doi: 10.1007/s11482-022-10064-w. Epub 2022 May 31.
We introduce a comprehensive policy-relevant measure of multidimensional wellbeing conceptually rooted in Amartya Sen's capability approach and applied to a middle-income country: the Multidimensional Wellbeing Index for Peru (MWI-P). We design and collect a specialized survey in Peru in late 2018, which included data on wellbeing achievements across 12 dimensions, on the value that respondents place upon each of these dimensions, and on self-perceived freedom. Then, we utilize this information to set the weighting structure and select a wellbeing sufficiency threshold for the MWI-P, which we estimate using the capability-inspired Alkire-Foster method. Our results show that only 45.9% of the sample population live above the wellbeing threshold, which involves achieving sufficiency in at least seven out of the 12 weighted dimensions of the MWI-P. Subgroup analyses reveal that rural populations, women, and older adults are at a disadvantage compared with urban populations, men, and younger adults, respectively. These subgroups' disparities hold valid if we introduce changes in the weighting structure or in the wellbeing sufficiency threshold. We argue that the MWI-P can inspire other low- and middle-income countries to reorient post-pandemic recovery policies from a focus on economic growth to a human flourishing approach based on what people value.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11482-022-10064-w.
我们引入了一种与政策相关的综合多维福祉衡量方法，该方法在概念上植根于阿玛蒂亚·森的能力方法，并应用于一个中等收入国家：秘鲁多维福祉指数（MWI-P）。我们于2018年末在秘鲁设计并开展了一项专门调查，其中包括了关于12个维度福祉成就的数据、受访者对每个维度的重视程度以及自我感知的自由度。然后，我们利用这些信息来设定权重结构，并为MWI-P选择一个福祉充足阈值，我们使用受能力启发的阿尔基尔-福斯特方法对其进行估计。我们的结果表明，只有45.9%的样本人口生活在福祉阈值之上，该阈值要求在MWI-P的12个加权维度中至少有7个维度达到充足水平。亚组分析显示，农村人口、女性和老年人分别与城市人口、男性和年轻人相比处于劣势。如果我们改变权重结构或福祉充足阈值，这些亚组之间的差距依然存在。我们认为，MWI-P可以激励其他低收入和中等收入国家将大流行后的复苏政策重点从经济增长转向基于人们所重视事物的人类繁荣发展方式。
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