Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement

<p>This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification step employs two forms of cutoff: one within each d...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Foster, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2009