Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensinal poverty measurement

<p> Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from tradi...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Foster, J
Format: Working paper
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2011