This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

The aim of this paper is to draw attention to ‘missing dimensions' of poverty data – dimensions that are of value to … income, longevity, and education, many have argued that people's values, and consequently multidimensional poverty, extends … individual or household-level data on multiple dimensions of poverty. A critical barrier for international analyses of …