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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Simulations and multidimensional poverty

Suppa, Nicolai||, Nogales, Ricardo
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Multidimensional Poverty

2022
AbstractThere is now a widespread consensus that poverty is multifaceted, reflecting deprivation people suffer in many aspects of life. The literature on measuring multidimensional poverty has expanded rapidly in recent times. This chapter carefully reviews the development of multidimensional poverty. Although the literature on multidimensional poverty
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
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Multidimensional Poverty Indices

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a ...
Jean-Yves Duclos, Luca Tiberti
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Multidimensional Poverty with Missing Attributes

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
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Acharya, Avidit, Roemer, John E.
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Multidimensional Poverty

2017
A rich literature on multidimensional poverty measurement has recently sprung up. In this multidimensional setting, an individual is identified as poor or deprived if he or she falls short of these poverty-line-like cut-offs along various dimensions.
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Measuring Multidimensional Poverty

2020
We detail the construction of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in general terms and we present information from the 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index to provide context for our measurement of multidimensional poverty in the U.S. This information includes discussions and examples of deprivation measurement (i.e., the MPI, headcount ...
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Poverty is Multidimensional: But Do We Really Need a Multidimensional Poverty Index?

2018
This study examines the various issues regarding the production of a multidimensional poverty index (MPI), from the choice of the underlying indicators for the index, the weights assigned to the indicators, as well as the aggregation process. It also reviews measurements on quality of life (happiness and well-being), poverty and welfare (including ...
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UNDP's Multidimensional poverty index [PDF]

, 2011
The measurement of well-being in its multidimensional aspects has become ever more prominent in monitoring development over the last three decades. This note discusses some of the properties of a recent multidimensional index proposed by the UNDP. Unlike most of its predecessors, UNDP's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) succeeds in taking into ...
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Multidimensional Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy

2018
Poverty is a worldwide problem and one of the central issues in economics, especially in development economics. Based on different interpretations of the connotation of poverty, people have different understanding of poverty reduction. Poverty itself, however, is not only a concept of governance covering policy practice and institutional arrangements ...
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