Measuring poverty: taking a multidimensional perspective

This paper reviews the main problems that have to be faced when taking a multidimensional approach to poverty and gives a survey of the solutions that have hitherto been proposed to solve these problems. The paper starts with a quick summary of the cardinal approach to uni-dimensional poverty analysis. After that, it reviews the cardinal ordinal approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement. It is also stressed that there is a qualitative approach to poverty measurement. Key words: JEL classification:

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Silber, Jacques
Published in:	Hacienda Pública Española. - Instituto de Estudios Fiscales. - 2007, 3, p. 29-74
Publisher:	Instituto de Estudios Fiscales
Subject:	Multidimensional poverty \| cardinal approach \| ordinal measurement

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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