Working paper
Multidimensional poverty measures from an information theory perspective
- Abstract:
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This paper proposes to use an information theory approach to the design of multidimensional poverty indices. Traditional monetary approaches to poverty rely on the strong assumption that all relevant attributes of well-being are perfectly substitutable. Based on the idea of the essentiality of some attributes, scholars have recently suggested multidimensional poverty indices where the existence of a trade-off between attributes is relevant only for individuals who are below a poverty threshold in all of them. The present paper proposes a method which encompasses both approaches and, moreover, it opens the door to an intermediate position which allows, to a certain extent, for substitution of attributes even in the case in which one or more (but not all) dimensions are above the set threshold. An application using individual well-being data from Indonesian households in 2000 is presented in order to compare the results under the different approaches.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
Actions
- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- Edition:
- Publisher's version
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Paper number:
- 10
- ISBN:
- 9781907194061
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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ora:9398
- Deposit date:
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2014-11-26
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
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