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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor : an ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428171
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Identifying Destitution Through Linked Subsets of Multidimensionally Poor : An Ordinal Approach
Alkire, Sabina - 2017
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969677
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Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World : Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155397
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Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E. - 2014
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 … poverty. We provide an intuitive description of our measurement approach, including a ‘dual cutoff’ identification step that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167371
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Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E. - 2014
This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167373
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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 2 – The Framework
Alkire, Sabina - 2015
-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well … measurement that are used in subsequent chapters. Third we define indicators' scales of measurement, and fourth, addressissues of … in axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement, which enable the analyst to understand the ethical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028215
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Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni‐dimensional Income Poverty : An Evidence of Stability Analysis from China
Alkire, Sabina; Fang, Yingfeng - 2021
In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty using the panel data from multiple waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We use first order stochastic dominance method and regression analysis to test the stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227966
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Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
Alkire, Sabina; Santos, María Emma - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305597
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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial to distinguish them from the moderately poor population. In this paper, we explore the mechanisms to distinguish subsets of the poor in a multidimensional counting framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440657
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Designing the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index
Alkire, Sabina - 2012
This paper proposes a method for adjusting the HDI to reflect the distribution of human development achievements across the population, and across dimensions, using an inequality measure from the Atkinson family. We begin with a discussion of the proposed indices in an idealized setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114870