A Common Good Approach to Structural Forms of Poverty

Authors

  • Mathias Nebel

Keywords:

Development Ethics, Multidimensional poverty, Community based development programs, Common good approach to development

Abstract

This article claims that structural forms of poverty are better understood not from the perspective of individual based statistics but from a lack of a specific set of common goods. The meaning and value given by a society to this set is therefore crucial and points toward the cultural and ethical elements of poverty. I will further argue that this approach may help identify the key elements of structural forms of poverty, that is, the features controlling the negative dynamic of wicked social subsystems.

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Author Biography

Mathias Nebel

He holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), since 2017 he is Academic Director of the Instituto Promotor del Bien Común (IPBC) at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla and Full-time Research Professor of Social Ethics and Catholic Social Thought at the same University. He studied theology in Freiburg, Madrid and Cambridge (Great Britain). Many thanks to the two anonymous reviewers of the text. A special mention must be made to the insightful comments and remarks made by my colleague Oscar Garza-Vázquez with whom I discussed previous versions of this article

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2021-07-01

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Nebel, M. (2021). A Common Good Approach to Structural Forms of Poverty. Ética, economía Y Bienes Comunes, 18(2), 169–187. Retrieved from https://journal.upaep.mx/index.php/EthicsEconomicsandCommonGoods/article/view/23

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