Individual Deprivation Measure
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The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) is a way of measuring poverty that was developed over four years by the IWDA.[1] It measures poverty on an individual level as opposed to a household level.[2] The IDM was designed to avoid gender biases built into existing poverty measures.[3] The household method assumes that everyone is equally poor but an organization called ONE claims that it is not and that 70% of the poor are female.[4] The goal of the Individual Deprivation Measure is to create a public standard of deprivation that is comparable across contexts, revealing gender disparity, and guiding antipoverty policy and programs.[5]
Two of the authors of The Individual Deprivation Measure: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Poverty Measurement, Pogge and Jaggar realized that statistics used to demonstrate the feminization of poverty reflected cultural and gender biases. They set out to create a non-arbitrary metric for poverty that could be used to measure the feminist aspect of poverty.[6]
Australia has used the Individual Deprivation Measure. They discussed the measure and the results at the UN on March 18, 2015.[7] Scott Wisor stated that monetary poverty measurement is not adequate to count poverty and should be complimented with multidimensional measurements.[8]
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