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The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in … the developing world, is insensitive to inequality among the multidimensionally poor individuals and does not consider … measurement (2013, 2017), we propose in this paper to depart somehow from the mainstream approach and take an individual-based and …
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This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning Department based on the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2010). The proposed index for Colombia is composed of five dimensions: education of household members; childhood and youth...
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Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …
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Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …
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multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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-deprived are and for tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how wellbeing is measured, the same …. This makes it possible to determine if the way well-being is measured matters for identifying who the opportunity … people are opportunity-deprived and equality of opportunity has improved over the past 20 years. This suggests that going …
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tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how well-being is measured, the same people are … possible to determine if the way well-being is measured matters for identifying who the opportunity-deprived are and for … opportunity-deprived and equality of opportunity has improved over the past 20 years. This suggests that going beyond income has …
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; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …
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