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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| Format: | Working paper |
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Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
2013
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