Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρκ that extends traditional approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα that satisfies several desirable properties including decomposability. Our identification step employs two...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Foster, J
Format: Working paper
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2007