Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person's inability to meet minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the...
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| description | This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person's inability to meet minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 developing countries. After presenting the MPI, we analyze its scope and robustness, with a focus on the data challenges and methodological issues involved in constructing and estimating it. A range of robustness tests indicate that the MPI offers a reliable framework that can complement global income poverty estimates. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e29c76cb-842c-45fa-a1f9-e80c611d61452022-03-27T10:02:51ZMeasuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty indexJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e29c76cb-842c-45fa-a1f9-e80c611d6145Symplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2014Alkire, SSantos, MSantos, MThis paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person's inability to meet minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 developing countries. After presenting the MPI, we analyze its scope and robustness, with a focus on the data challenges and methodological issues involved in constructing and estimating it. A range of robustness tests indicate that the MPI offers a reliable framework that can complement global income poverty estimates. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. |
| spellingShingle | Alkire, S Santos, M Santos, M Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title | Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title_full | Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title_fullStr | Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title_short | Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
| title_sort | measuring acute poverty in the developing world robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index |
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