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 thres...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Canadian International Development Agency
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Department for International Development
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AusAID
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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:
- 10
- ISBN:
- 9781907194061
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9398
- Deposit date:
- 2014-11-26
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- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2009
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