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I operationalise Sanjay Reddy and Thomas Pogge’s framework for poverty estimation and data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study In India to discuss poverty among the elderly in India. I argue that their approach overcomes problems inherent to conventional poverty measures.
Recent debates around poverty estimation in India have highlighted that the limitations inherent to both conventional money-metric poverty estimation methods as well as multi-dimensional poverty indices have yet to be resolved. Sanjay Reddy and Thomas Pogge (2005) provide a framework for poverty measurement that theoretically overcomes many of these limitations by combining a globally determined invariant measure of poverty rooted in the capability approach that is tied to characteristics that reflect these capabilities and which are themselves acquired through the consumption of goods and services. This approach not only overcomes the index number issue inherent to money-metric poverty estimation but also allows for a more dynamic measure of capability-linked poverty than is allowed by multi-dimensional poverty indices. I operationalise Reddy and Pogge’s framework by using Lancaster’s Characteristics Model in the context of poverty among the elderly in India using data from various sources including the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI). I argue that this approach allows for a stronger consideration of resilience, adaptability and wellbeing to target subsets of populations that experience vulnerability differently than can be accounted for by existing methods.