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Examining A ‘Micro–Macro Paradox’: Did Poverty Really Fall in the Union of Myanmar?
Author(s) -
Shaffer Paul
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3065
Subject(s) - poverty , odds , consumption (sociology) , macro , development economics , economics , measuring poverty , survey data collection , perception , demographic economics , public economics , economic growth , sociology , logistic regression , psychology , social science , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , computer science , medicine , programming language
There is a ‘micro–macro paradox’ in poverty measurement. In a number of countries, declines in income or consumption poverty found in nationally representative household survey data are at odds with people's perceptions of worsening poverty or deprivation. This article suggests a number of potential explanations for the paradox and presents the case of Myanmar where many of these same issues have recently played out. It is argued that there are plausible explanations that reconcile, in part, apparently conflicting positions in Myanmar's ‘Great Poverty Debate’. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.