Working paper
Measuring multidimensional poverty in Latin America : previous experience and the way forward
- Abstract:
- This paper states the need to design a multidimensional poverty index for the Latin America region (LA-MPI) that can monitor poverty trends in a cross-country comparable way, yet is also relevant to the particular regional context. We review the region’s rich experience with multidimensional poverty measurement, as well as Europe’s experiences with multidimensional measurement. We set a number of requirements for the LA-MPI to satisfy and specify the methodological criterions necessary to fulfill such requirements. Drawing from the review, we outline an LA-MPI composed of five dimensions: basic consumptions, education, health, housing and basic services, and work. We list the indicators within those dimensions that are desirable, as well as what indicators are feasible given existing data constraints.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
- Series:
- Ophi working paper
- Paper number:
- 66
- Language:
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English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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ora:9045
- Deposit date:
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2014-10-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Citation: Santos, M. E. (2014). Measuring multidimensional poverty in Latin America: Previous experience and the way forward. OPHI Working Paper 66, University of Oxford.
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