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A multidimensional child poverty index in China

Children and Youth Services Review, 2015
Abstract This paper analyses the multidimensional child poverty status and its dynamic changes in China from 1989 to 2009 using the China Health and Nutrition survey data. Built on the Alkire–Foster methodology, the adjusted child poverty headcount ratio is calculated which measures not only the traditional headcount ratio of child poverty but also ...
Di Qi, Yichao Wu
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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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Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty Index in India

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
Poverty is a complex phenomenon in India. It creates multilayered challenges that extend beyond income deprivation to include deficits in health, education, and living standards. This study examines the nature, extent, and determinants of multidimensional poverty in India and also analyses trends, regional variations in the Multidimensional Poverty ...
Prof. Vinita Katiyar, Prof. Shishir Kumar Verma   +1 more
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Gender and Multidimensional Poverty in South Africa: Applying the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

Social Indicators Research, 2015
Recent work has shown that the gender gap in income poverty has widened in post-apartheid South Africa even though overall poverty levels have declined. One of the main criticisms of money-metric studies of gendered poverty differences is that income is only one dimension of poverty and that other measures of welfare may better reflect the relative ...
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A Multidimensional Poverty Index for the United States

2018
A multidimensional poverty index for the United States is designed, evaluated, and defended as a useful measurement tool for policymakers to evaluate poverty. Chapter 1 presents a normative case for the index. Chapter 2 reviews the literature on poverty measures. Chapter 3 constructs the proposed index.
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Assessing the Level of Energy Poverty Using a Synthetic Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index in EU Countries

Energies, 2023
Malgorzata Guzowska, Barbara Kryk
exaly  

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

2023
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Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index

2022
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Revisions of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Indicator Options and Their Empirical Assessment

Oxford Development Studies, 2021
Sabina Alkire, Usha Kanagaratnam
exaly  

Multidimensional Poverty Index of the Districts of Gujarat

2023
Nasheman Bandookwala, Manjula Dabhi
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