Conditions for the most robust poverty comparisons using the Alkire-Foster Family of Measures

<p>In the burgeoning literature on multidimensional poverty indices, the Alkire-Foster (AF) measures stand out for their resilience in identifying the multidimensionally poor with cut-off criteria covering the spectrum from the union approach to the intersection approach. The intuitiveness and...

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Main Author: Yalonetzky, G
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2011