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Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis

Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E.; Seth, Suman; Santo, … - 2014

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The role of inequality in poverty measurement

Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E. - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative - 2019

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Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty

Castleman, Tony - 2015

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey tangible information about poverty. But both ignore...

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 9 – Distribution and Dynamics

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

For meaningful policy analysis, it is important not only to look at overall poverty, and compare countries or regions at a single point in time, but also to understand the distribution among the poor, the disparity across subgroups, and the dynamics of poverty. This extends the methodological...

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 10 – Some Regression Models for Af Measures

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

This Chapter provides the reader with a general modelling framework for analysing the determinants of the Alkire and Foster (2011) poverty measures for both micro and macro levels of analyses. At the micro level, we present a model where the focal variable is a person's poverty status. At the...

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 8 – Robustness Analysis and Statistical Inference

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are subject to both the set of selected parameters (or...

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 6 – Normative Choices in Measurement Design

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

After a measurement methodology has been chosen, the design of poverty measures — whether unidimensional or … describes each of these normative choices in the context of multidimensional poverty measurement design. It clarifies the …

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 5 – the Alkire-Foster Counting Methodology

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

This chapter provides a systematic overview of the Alkire-Foster multidimensional measurement methodology with an …

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 4 – Counting Approaches: Definitions, Origins, and Implementations

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

The measurement of poverty involves identification: the fundamental step of deciding who is to be considered poor. A … ‘counting approach' is one way to identify the poor in multidimensional poverty measurement, which entails the intuitive … reviews applications of the counting methods in the history of poverty measurement. We focus on empirical studies since the …

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis : Chapter 2 – The Framework

Alkire, Sabina - 2015

-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well … measurement that are used in subsequent chapters. Third we define indicators' scales of measurement, and fourth, addressissues of … in axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement, which enable the analyst to understand the ethical …

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