Pillai, N. Vijayamohanan - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2004
possessing some of the most desirable properties in describing the distribution of deprivation dimensions and hence as the most … appropriate aggregate index of multi-dimensional deprivation. The UNDP elevates power mean of order > 1 (PM) in comparison with … only. Hence, while the PM captures the multi-dimensional deprivation, its inverse, the IPM, seems to offer a multi …