This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition …

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition. …

variables is not very different from the one that is observed when poverty measurement is based only on the income or the total …This paper makes a systematic comparison of four approaches to multidimensional poverty analysis based respectively on … the theory of fuzzy sets, information theory, efficiency analysis and axiomatic derivations of poverty indices. The …