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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006
Madden, David - 2008
the different dimensions of poverty. …
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, María Emma - 2011
multidimensional measures and it is composed of ten indicators corresponding to same three dimensions as the Human Development Index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305597
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Multi-dimensional poverty index and tackling interlocking deprivations in the Arab States
Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2014
-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335894
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Regional perspectives to the multidimensional poverty index
Pasha, Atika - 2015
multidimensional construct is possible. The analysis shows that equal weighting of the three dimensions cannot be statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335960
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Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Castleman, Tony; Foster, James; Smith, Stephen C. - 2015
Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401676
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On the dynamics of multidimensional chronic pover
Garcia-Diaz, Rocio; Prudencio, Daniel - 2015
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418556
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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329002
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Multidimensional poverty in Colombia, 1997 - 2010
Diaz, Beatriz Yadira; Salazar, Roberto Carlos Angulo; … - 2013
Department based on the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2010). The proposed index for Colombia is composed of five dimensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331226
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Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Lugo, Maria Ana - 2012
Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … alternatives include simple Venn diagrams of the overlap of deprivations across dimensions, multivariate stochastic dominance … analysis, and the analysis of copula functions, which capture the extent of interdependency across dimensions. Examples from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331407
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Health and wealth on the roller-coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343170