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Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World : Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index

Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - 2013

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

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Measuring acute poverty in the developing world : robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index

Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 59 (2014), pp. 251-274

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Measuring acute poverty in the developing world : robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index

Alkire, Sabina; Santos, Maria Emma - 2013

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"Too young to die" : deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality

Baland, Jean-Marie; Decerf, Benoit; Cassan, Guilhem - 2019

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A theory-based living standards index for measuring poverty in developing countries

Ngo, Diana - In: Journal of development economics 130 (2018), pp. 190-202

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"Too young to die" : deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality

Baland, Jean-Marie; Decerf, Benoit; Cassan, Guilhem - 2019

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Editorial: Capability approach and multidimensional well-being in high-income countries

Burchi, Francesco; De Muro, Pasquale - In: Forum for social economics 45 (2016) 2/3, pp. 111-119

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Developing a principle-based framework for evaluating comprehensive poverty solutions across contexts

Forrest, Tamar M.; Wallace-Pascoe, Dawn; Goldstein, Howard - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 19 (2015) 3, pp. 330-355

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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017

measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes … significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts … from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute …

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