Non-monetary deprivation in dimensions such as shelter, food, water, sanitation, education, health, and information is equally, if not more, revealing.
Both the monetary and deprivation approach show strong disparities between regions, backgrounds and household characteristics (size, wealth and study level of parents).
Deprivation and monetary poverty have large overlaps and significant interactions.
"Studies undertaken in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana have shown that the monetary poverty and food deprivations have increased up to 10 percentage points and that deprivations in terms of schooling and access to health services have increased by up to one percentage points" said John Cockburn, Economics Researcher at the University of Laval (Canada).
In addition, children are affected by non-monetary poverty or deprivations of rights in matter of access to education, health, safe water.
Understanding the influence of monetary poverty alongside such multiple deprivations on child well-being is captured through a wider set of household data as well as new techniques and approaches.
To obtain a holistic view of poverty, the studies takes into consideration various aspects of poverty, such as monetary poverty, inadequate living conditions and deprivation.
So as to obtain a holistic view of poverty, the study takes into consideration various aspects of poverty, such as monetary poverty, inadequate living conditions and deprivation.
The study shows that Congolese children face both monetary and non-monetary poverty or deprivations.
To obtain a holistic view of poverty, the study takes into consideration various aspects of poverty, such as monetary poverty, inadequate living conditions and deprivations.
While there is some rejection of the monetary poverty line approach and multiple deprivations are explicitly recognized, the entry point of most studies continues to be poverty, either income poverty or poverty in its multi-dimensional forms.
