The continued drag of horrible poverty headcount measures on Guyana reputedly the Americas’ fastest growing Petrostate

By Dr Clive Thomas On In Guyana and the Wider World |

Introduction

Last week’s column illustrated that for most of the 2000s Guyana’s poverty theorizing as well as its policy prescriptions have been constructed on the basis of data derived from headcount or headcount–related survey studies.This is captured in the evolution of the United Nations, UN, institution-led Human Development Reports, HDRs, starting in 1990; along with the UN-led 2015-2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals initiatives, SDGs, and their emphases towards a broader multi-dimensional approach.

Both approaches have continued to date; and I shall review this situation in today’s column.