Identifying the Poorest People and Groups: Strategies Using the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Sabina Alkire, Jose Roche, Suman Seth () and Andy Sumner

No 78, OPHI Working Papers from Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

Abstract: If development is about poverty reduction, then where the poorest live is an important question. This paper seeks to answer this question using an internationally comparable multidimensional poverty index (MPI) to identify the poor using household surveys across more than a hundred countries. We compare three approaches to identifying the bottom billion: (i) the billion living in the poorest countries; (ii) the billion living in the poorest subnational regions; and (iii) the poorest billion according to the intensity of their deprivations. Although there are commonalities across these three approaches, they produce notably different findings that are relevant to the discussions of sustainable development goals.

Date: 2014-11
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