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Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis : chapter 9 - distribution and dynamics
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For meaningful policy analysis, it is important not only to look at overall poverty, and compare countries or regions at a single point in time, but also to understand the distribution among the poor, the disparity across subgroups, and the dynamics of poverty. This extends the methodological toolkit presented in Chapter 5. First we present a new measure of inequality among the poor and its axiomatic justification. The same measure, a form of variance, can be extended to analyse horizont...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-02-01
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Paper number:
- 90
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2015-04-09
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- 2015
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