Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Title Multidimensional Poverty Measurement PDF eBook
Author Udaya Wagle
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 229
Release 2009-04-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0387758755

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Multidimensional approaches have increasingly been used to understand poverty, but have yet to be fully operationalized. This methodical and important book uses factor analysis and structural equations modelling to develop a multidimensional framework that integrates capability and social inclusion as additional poverty indicators. The empirical relevance of this methodological contribution is demonstrated through in-depth case studies of the United States and Nepal.

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis
Title Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis PDF eBook
Author Sabina Alkire
Publisher OUP Oxford
Total Pages 312
Release 2015-06-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0191003638

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Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly. Notably, it has informed the publication of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) estimates in the Human Development Reports of the United Nations Development Programme since 2010, and the release of national poverty measures in Mexico, Colombia, Bhutan, the Philippines and Chile. The academic response has been similarly swift, with related articles published in both theoretical and applied journals. The high and insistent demand for in-depth and precise accounts of multidimensional poverty measurement motivates this book, which is aimed at graduate students in quantitative social sciences, researchers of poverty measurement, and technical staff in governments and international agencies who create multidimensional poverty measures. The book is organized into four elements. The first introduces the framework for multidimensional measurement and provides a lucid overview of a range of multidimensional techniques and the problems each can address. The second part gives a synthetic introduction of 'counting' approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement and provides an in-depth account of the counting multidimensional poverty measurement methodology developed by Alkire and Foster, which is a straightforward extension of the well-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures that had a significant and lasting impact on income poverty measurement. The final two parts deal with the pre-estimation issues such as normative choices and distinctive empirical techniques used in measure design, and the post-estimation issues such as robustness tests, statistical inferences, comparisons over time, and assessments of inequality among the poor.

Dimensions of Poverty

Dimensions of Poverty
Title Dimensions of Poverty PDF eBook
Author Valentin Beck
Publisher Springer Nature
Total Pages 413
Release 2020-06-10
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3030317110

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This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation. Absolute and relative poverty—both within and across state boundaries—are standardly measured and evaluated in monetary terms. However, poverty researchers have highlighted the shortfalls of one-dimensional monetary metrics. A new consensus is emerging that effectively addressing poverty requires a nuanced understanding of poverty as a relational phenomenon involving deprivations in multiple dimensions, including health, standard of living, education and political participation. This volume advances the debate on poverty by providing a forum for philosophers and empirical researchers. It combines philosophically sound analysis and genuinely global research on poverty's social embeddedness. Next to an introduction to this interdisciplinary field—which links Practical Philosophy, Development Economics, Political Science, and Sociology—it contains articles by leading international experts and early career scholars. The contributors analyse the concept of poverty, detail its multiple dimensions, reveal epistemic injustices in poverty research, and reflect on the challenges of poverty-related social activism. The unifying theme connecting this volume's contributions is that poverty must be understood as a multidimensional and socially relational phenomenon, and that this insight can enhance our efforts to measure and alleviate poverty.

Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty

Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty
Title Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty PDF eBook
Author Louis-Marie Asselin
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 215
Release 2009-08-29
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1441908439

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Poverty is a paradoxical state. Recognizable in the eld for any sensitive observer who travels in remote rural areas and urban slums and meets marginalized people in a given society, poverty still remains a challenge to conceptual formalization and to measurement that is consistent with such formalization. The analysis of poverty is multidisciplinary. It goes from ethics to economics, from political science to human biology, and any type of measurement rests on mathematics. Moreover, poverty is multifaceted according to the types of deprivation, and it is also gender and age speci c. A vector of variables is required, which raises a substantial problem for individual and group comparisons necessary to equity analysis. Multidimension- ity also complicates the aggregation necessary to perform the ef ciency analysis of policies. In the case of income poverty, these two problems, equity and ef ciency, have bene ted from very signi cant progress in the eld of economics. Similar achievements are still to come in the area of multidimensional poverty. Within this general background, this book has a very modest and narrow-scoped objective. It proposes an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, the size and the qualitative as well as the quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, a household or a sociodemographic entity.

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis
Title Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis PDF eBook
Author Sabina Alkire
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages 369
Release 2015
Genre Poverty
ISBN 0199689490

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A systematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological introduction to multi-dimensional poverty measurement and analysis. It provides a lucid overview of the problems that a range of multidimensional techniques can address and sets out a synthetic introduction of counting and axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement

Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Title Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement PDF eBook
Author Achille A. Lemmi
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages 285
Release 2006-12-06
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0387342516

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This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty. This includes the theoretical background, applications to cross-sections using contemporary European examples, and longitudinal aspects of multidimensional fuzzy poverty analysis that pay particular attention to the transitory, or impermanent, conditions that often occur during transitions to market economies. The research is up-to-date and international.

Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Title Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement PDF eBook
Author N. Kakwani
Publisher Springer
Total Pages 265
Release 2008-02-21
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0230582354

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This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries.