Acute multidimensional poverty : a new index for developing countries

<p>This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about 78 percent of the world's population....

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Santos, E
Format: Working paper
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2010