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No WP1306: Relational Capability: A Multidimensional Approach

Gaël Giraud (), Cécile Renouard (), Hélène L’Huillier (), Raphaële de la Martinière () and Camille Sutter
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Gaël Giraud: Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (CES), Postal: CNRS : UMR8174 – Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital , 75647 Paris Cedex 13, FRANCE
Cécile Renouard: ESSEC Business School, IRENE, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE
Hélène L’Huillier: ESSEC Business School, IRENE, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE
Raphaële de la Martinière: ESSEC Business School, IRENE, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 50105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE Cedex, FRANCE
Camille Sutter: École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (Ensea ParisTech), Postal: 3 avenue Pierre Larousse, 92245 MALAKOFF Cedex, FRANCE

Abstract: This paper explores some of the dimensions related to poverty and exclusion, by defining a Relational Capability Index (RCI) which focuses on the quality of relationships among people and on their level of relational empowerment. This index is rooted in a relational anthropology; it insists on the quality of the social fabric and of interpersonal relations as a key aspect of human development. As a multidimensional index, the RCI includes integration into networks, private relations and civic commitments. We provide an axiomatization of a family of multidimensional indexes. This axiomatic viewpoint fills the gap between theories of justice and poverty measurements. By means of illustration, we apply three different versions of the RCI, which are elements of this family, to the measurement of the impact of oil companies on local communities in the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and to national surveys (Afrobarometer).

Keywords: Sciences de l'Homme et Société Economie et finances; Sciences de l'Homme et Société Sociologie

JEL-codes: I30

54 pages, April 2013

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