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 ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification step employs two forms of cutoff: one within each dimension to determine whether a person is deprived in that dimension, and a second across dimensions that identifies the poor by ‘counting’ the dimensions in which a person is deprived. The aggregation s...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Funding
Department for International Development
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AusAID
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Canadian International Development Agency
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International Development Research Centre
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Paper number:
- 32
- ISBN:
- 9781907194160
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:9429
- Deposit date:
- 2014-11-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Copyright © Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative 2009. This publication is copyright, however it may be reproduced without fee for teaching or non-profit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, and will normally be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for re-use in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from OPHI and may be subject to a fee. This is the revised and updated version of the earlier working paper, which can be found here: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:872ac1c6-ef22-4c73-b933-43340dd01eb7
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