This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

In this study we analyse the evolution of deprivation indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index using … multidimensional poverty index based on the selected deprivation indicators. The results are presented at the provincial and … chosen deprivation dimensions. We also identify marked geographical disparities in the incidence of poverty and deprivation …

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deprivation of education, health and housing facilities to analyze the incidence of multidimensional poverty (MDP) at regional …The concept of poverty has gone beyond the monetary attributes to cover several dimensions directly influencing the … due mainly to the variation in the deprivation levels of socio-economic aspects. Furthermore, the magnitude of MDP is …

Poverty and wellbeing are multi-dimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and wellbeing can be aggregated into a … single, multi-dimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and wellbeing useful? Is it …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

Poverty and wellbeing are multi-dimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and wellbeing can be aggregated into a … single, multi-dimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and wellbeing useful? Is it …

Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent … work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and … Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement …

deprivation in Ireland. The Alkire and Foster adjusted head count ratio approach (AHCR; 2007, 2011a, 2011b) applied here … poverty in terms of dimensions and sub-groups. The approach involves a censoring of data such that deprivations count only for … those above the specified multidimensional threshold leading to a stronger set of interrelationships between deprivation …

This paper sets out the reasoning behind the fuzzy set approach to poverty measurement as a means to address both … vertical and horizontal vagueness of poverty. The linear approach of Cerioli and Zani and the totally fuzzy and relative …. The results indicate different experiences of poverty in the Eastern Cape. It is shown that the traditional money metric …