Measuring and decomposing inequality among multidimensionally poor using ordinal data : a counting approach

<p>Poverty has many dimensions, which, in practice, are often binary or ordinal in nature. A number of multidimensional measures of poverty have recently been proposed that respect this ordinal nature. These measures agree that the consideration of inequality across the poor is important, whic...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Seth, S
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2014
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