Measuring acute poverty in the developing world : robustness and scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index

<p>This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first im...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Santos, M
格式: Working paper
语言:English
出版: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2013