Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing deprivations in multiple dimensions clashes with the vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing on the recent literature, this short paper reviews three methodological alternatives to the false dichotomy between scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a dashboard approach that considers only marginal distributions...
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2013/01/20
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Journal Article
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2017/03/02
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Multidimensional poverty analysis : looking for a middle ground
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Ferreira,Francisco H. G.; Lugo,Maria Ana.
Multidimensional poverty analysis : looking for a middle ground (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/385211488447813615