Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: insights and oversights of the headcount ratio

Following Amartya Sen’s pioneering ideas on poverty and inequality measurement, the development economics literature proposes diverse classes of measures as well as poverty orderings. Yet in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the headcount ratio is the primary statistic for measuring monetary...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Oldiges, C, Kanagaratnam, U
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021