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James E. Foster
Researcher at George Washington University
Publications - 84
Citations - 15521
James E. Foster is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Multidimensional Poverty Index. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 83 publications receiving 14153 citations. Previous affiliations of James E. Foster include Purdue University & Cornell University.
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A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures
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Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Sabina Alkire,James E. Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα.
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Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement
TL;DR: The authors proposed a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα.
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Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Sabina Alkire,James E. Foster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors elucidate the strengths, limitations, and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement and provide an intuitive description of their measurement approach, including a "dual cutoff" identification step that views poverty as the state of being multiply deprived, and an aggregation step based on the traditional Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) measures.
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Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement
TL;DR: Alkire et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a multidimensional approach to identify the poor and measure aggregate poverty, which is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multi-dimensional poverty measurement, particularly with respect to the identification step.