A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure poverty. Breaking the Poverty Code recognizes that any mismeasurement may provide inaccurate information to policymakers about the extent of poverty in the population, potentially inhibiting the success of policy initiatives moving forward.

Advocating for a more objective measurement, Yedith Betzabe Guillen-Fernandez reinvents how poverty is presented and defined by exploring methods currently employed by CONEVAL, the institution in charge of applying the official methodology for multidimensional poverty in Mexico. With this context in mind, Yedith argues for the implementation of the 'Consensual approach' to inform the 'Social Rights-based approach' as a way to update criteria for living standards. Calling for a more holistic conception of poverty that accounts for evolving socioeconomic and technological needs, chapters highlight both British and Latin American scholarship to emphasize the fluidity that must be taken into account when defining poverty.

Transcending the Mexican context, this book presents critical sociological observations that fuse the importance of statistical data with the lived realities of impoverished people everywhere.

About the Author

Yedith Betzabe Guillen-Fernandez is Lecturer in Poverty and Researcher at the Institute of Economic Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, IIEc), National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, UNAM), Mexico City.

Book Information
ISBN 9781837535217
Author Yedith Betzabe Guillen-Fernandez
Format Hardback
Page Count 176
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 384g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm