Journal article
Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: insights and oversights of the headcount ratio
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Following Amartya Sen’s pioneering ideas on poverty and inequality measurement, the development economics literature proposes diverse classes of measures as well as poverty orderings. Yet in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the headcount ratio is the primary statistic for measuring monetary and multidimensional poverty. Rigorously analysing the trends of multidimensional poverty for India between 2005/6 and 2015/16, we illustrate how the headcount ratio is not able to observe certain...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- World Development Journal website
- Volume:
- 142
- Article number:
- 105454
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-19
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- ISSN:
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0305-750X
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- English
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1163074
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- pubs:1163074
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- 2021-02-22
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- Alkire et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- Copyright 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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