Making every dimension count: multidimensional poverty without the “dual cut off”

Gaurav Datt

No 32-13, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper takes a critical look at the class of multidimensional poverty measures recently proposed by Alkire and Foster (2007, 2011a). The critique centres on the specific formulation of the dominance axioms, in particular the weak transfer and the weak rearrangement axioms. Stronger versions of these dominance axioms as well as a new cross-dimensional convexity axiom are proposed leading to a new class of multidimensional poverty measures.

Keywords: multidimensional poverty; poverty measurement; axiomatic approach; transfer axiom; cross-dimensional convexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2013-07
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