Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
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...In this section, we use the second notation, as it is consistent with the M0 measurement (Alkire & Foster, 2011a,b)....
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...We refer to this important step as censoring the inadequacies of the empowered (see Alkire & Foster, 2011a,b; Alkire, Foster, & Santos, 2011)....
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...Based on the Alkire–Foster methodology (Alkire & Foster, 2011 a,b; Alkire & Santos 2010), WEAI is an aggregate index that can be broken down in many ways....
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...In the WEAI, we define the disempowerment cutoff as strict (ci > k); in previous work we have defined the cutoff as weak (ci P k) (Alkire & Foster, 2011a,b)....
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...The WEAI, a survey-based index using individual-level data collected from primary male and female respondents within the same households, is similar in construction to the Alkire-Foster group of multidimensional poverty indices (Alkire & Foster, 2011a, b)....
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...Bourguignon and Satya Chakravarty [20], proposed a class of multidimensional poverty measures that extended the Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) class of indices and discussed interrelationships among dimensions [ 31 ]....
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...The result is a methodology for measuring poverty in the sense of Sen (1976) that first identifies who is poor, then aggregates to obtain overall measures of poverty that reflect the multiple deprivations experienced by the poor....
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...Our methodology has its roots in the literature on axiomatic poverty measurement (Sen, 1976), which – like related work in inequality and welfare indices – employs axioms to discern between measures....
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...Following Sen (1976) we ask: Who is poor and how should overall poverty be measured in this setting?...
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...The 1997 Human Development Report [48] and the 2000/1 World Development Report [ 50 ] vividly introduced poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, and the Millennium Declaration and MDGs have highlighted multiple dimensions of poverty since 2000....
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...This is a key motivation behind Alkire and Foster (2007, 2011)....
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...23 For example see Alkire and Foster (2011) and Lasso de la Vega (2010); see also Alkire and Santos (2010) and Alkire, Santos, Seth, and Yalonetzky (2010).....
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...…that satisfy decomposability, replication invariance, symmetry, poverty and deprivation focus, weak and dimensional monotonicity, nontriviality, normalisation, and weak rearrangement; while M1 and M2 satisfy monotonicity; and M2 satisfies a weak transfer property (Alkire and Foster 2011)....
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...Alkire and Foster (2011) provide an example which first decomposes a population by ethnic group and then by dimension....
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...In recent work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and Foster 2011)....
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