Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty

Sivakumar Marimuthu () and A Sarvalingam

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, measurement of poverty must cover many dimensions. So far, the income and/or consumption indicator has received most attention. But, now the focus is shifted towards deprivation in different dimensions for example income, health and education. The human development and human deprivation studies have opened new perspectives on measuring and analysing poverty and development with the help of multidimensional concept. The present study, in this context will serve to enrich useful knowledge about human deprivation which analysis the poverty multi dimensionally.

Keywords: Human Deprivation; Poverty; Multi dimension; Health; Infant Mortality; Education; Illiteracy; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I2 I3 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa and nep-hrm
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22337/1/MPRA_paper_22337.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:22337

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().