This chapter introduces empirical issues that are distinctive to counting-based multidimensional poverty methodologies … constructing the indicators to include in a multidimensional poverty measure. The third section presents some basic descriptive … very briefly the different types of data sources used for multidimensional measures: censuses, administrative records, and …

stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … evolution of multidimensional poverty in Nepal. Our findings show crucial differences between these approaches. …In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial …

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 … multidimensional measures and it is composed of ten indicators corresponding to same three dimensions as the Human Development Index …

stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … evolution of multidimensional poverty in Nepal. Our findings show crucial differences between these approaches …In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person …’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 …

Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent … Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement … strengths, limitations, and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement in order to clarify the debate and …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification … our measures, the adjusted headcount ratio. We present some dominance results and an interpretation of the adjusted …

Methods for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment) as well as the measure presented in OPHI Working Papers 86-90 (Chapters 5 …-9) are based on these measures. The second section introduces the notation and basic concepts for multidimensional poverty … in axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement, which enable the analyst to understand the ethical …

In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty … method and regression analysis to test the stability of multidimensional poverty measures and probe the often-observed mis …-match between multidimensional measures and income measures. We find as expected that China’s multidimensional poverty is …