Livelihood assessment in district 1 of Medellin – Colombia

• Authors: Ciro Alfonso Serna Mendoza , Miroslawa Czerny , Abraham Allec Londoño Pineda , Oscar Alonso Velez Rojas

Abstracts

EN

The livelihood approach aims at the analysis, understanding and restrictions that the poorest people have to face in order to recover from difficult situations. The Department for International Development model is applied to an urban zone with the purpose of making an assessment of the livelihood of the district ’la Comuna 1’ in Medellin, Colombia, which has been recognised as the poorest and one of the most dangerous districts of the city. The case study presents both a quantitative analysis (macro) and qualitative (micro) analysis, as a mixed method that allows a more complete analysis and understanding of livelihood, and providing a deeper understanding of the district from the livelihood approach. The results indicate a stable growth of livelihood during the period of analysis.

Keywords

EN

Livelihood; poverty; human development; vulnerability; index; Medellin

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 9-20

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

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Ciro Alfonso Serna Mendoza

• Universidad de Manizales, Director of the PhD program in Sustainable Development, Columbia

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Miroslawa Czerny

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

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Abraham Allec Londoño Pineda

• International Relations and Business Group School as Economic and Administrative Sciences, Universidad de Medellin, Colombia.

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Oscar Alonso Velez Rojas

• International Business, Universidad de Medellin, Colombia

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Biblioteka Nauki

1035984