Human Development Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index: Evidence on their Reliability and Validity

Edsel Beja

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The paper tests the reliability and the validity of the Human Development Index (HDI) from the United Nations Development Programme and the Multidimen-sional Poverty Index (MPI) from the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative. The results indicate that there is strong reliability within metric; and that there is strong validity between metrics. The findings imply that both HDI—more specifically, the inverse, (1-HDI)—and MPI embody equivalent descriptions about the level of human development or the lack of it.

Keywords: Human Development Index; Multidimensional Poverty Index; Reliability; Validity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03-01
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