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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
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 …
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Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)
Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
As a measure of wellbeing, national income misses variations in the things income can and cannot buy. It also misses variations in people’s claim on that aggregate income. The Human Development Index attempts to address the first weakness by incorporating two additional dimensions, health and...
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