Working paper
Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement
- Abstract:
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This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρκ that extends traditional approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα that satisfies several desirable properties including decomposability. Our identification step employs two forms of cutoff: one within each dimension and a second across dimensions that identifies the poor by counting their deprivations. We aggregate using Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures adjusted for mu...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Funding
International Development Research Centre
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Canadian International Development Agency
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Publisher's website
- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Source identifiers:
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602
- Paper number:
- 07
- ISBN:
- 9781907194009
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- Local pid:
- daisy:602
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- Copyright © Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative 2007. Not for citation or quatation without permission. Please send any comments to the authors. Spanish translation of this working paper available here: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02c0ea9b-840c-4bbe-a61a-1ffc3265c795 and the updated and revised version of this working paper is available here: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:410bf696-61c2-4d0a-919d-8d8b8968efb6
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