Abstract
Growth and development without giving due attention to income and spatial distribution can be imposing and provide new challenges to poverty issues. The rural-urban exodus of the poor for better economic opportunities, landed in an environment even more devastating to many of the migrants. Although some having access to a decent standard of life, many ended up in pathetic living conditions. This discourse aims to investigate urban poverty in urban dimensions of poverty rather to measure it by income line approach which often does not represent an appropriate yardstick of poverty measurement. This proposal introduces a set of various urban poverty based dimensions index to be referred as the Multidimensional Urban Poverty Index (MUPI) to re-evaluate the urban poverty on a wider socioeconomic scale. The proposed index consists of economic, socioeconomic, financial accessibility, living conditions and social fragmentation dimensions. The dimensions are aggregated, by assigning different weights based on previous theoretical and empirical studies. Conceptualization and measurement of urban poverty within the urban dimensions have valuable policy implications and targets the marginalized communities in the urban areas. The study will contribute to the existing field of knowledge at one hand and will contribute to better outreach efforts by the state to help the nation's development agenda. The national poverty line index is not appropriate to identify the urban poor given its many limitations. This study integrates selected weighted socioeconomic indicators to reveal a more comprehensive picture of the deprivations and human rights violations based on accepted urban dimensions.
Highlights
The issue of poverty and the socioeconomic conditions of the general population has remained a big challenge since human civilization
The urban poor spent a substantial amount of their scarce earnings to have access to these facilities
The urban poor are more vulnerable to natural disasters and human diseases due to living in unsafe places, high pollution and environmental hazards
Summary
The issue of poverty and the socioeconomic conditions of the general population has remained a big challenge since human civilization. If the household members are living in slums they are vulnerable to multidimensional poor and vice versa Financial accessibility is another dimension of MUDI. If a household member does not have an access to conventional financial institutions for credit or insurance the household is deprived on financial accessibility dimension Living conditions such as access to clean drinking water, electricity and adequate sanitation represent a direct measure of standard of life. The poor are not deprived in a single aspect (income or health or social aspects etc.) rather they are deprived in multiple aspects ; a proper investigation will reveal their multidimensional deprivations based on selected indicators at one hand while the intensity of deprivations for each dimension on the other hand. For example Table-2 shows that the urban poor are suffering from social rights violation in the form of social fragmentation and economic rights violation in the form living conditions dimensions
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