Typologies of social groups in Panama
Perspectives and Proposals
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37387/ipc.v9i2.233Keywords:
social groups, poverty, economic wellbeing, Panama, capabilitiesAbstract
There is a wide variety of efforts from academics and government, and international agencies to explore the conditions of people living in poverty and evaluate policies to improve their living conditions. However, Panamanian studies that use survey and administrative data to track these people's social welfare trajectories after emerging from poverty are more limited, particularly those that aim to understand if and how these changes impact their values, opinions, and political behaviors. This study proposes a research agenda to close this knowledge gap by 1) integrating economic and sociological perspectives on social groups, recognizing both the agency of each individual that is part of a group and the social and political context that limits individual decisions; 2) starting from a hypothesis that justifies the creation of different groups; 3) being transparent about the academic, political, and social goals that drive these rankings; 4) recognizing the limitations and multiple operationalizations that can be used in these processes. The study concludes with the results of the first approach to this typology
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