Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: The Mexican Wave

Gonzalo Hernández Licona

Chapter 2 in Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics, 2016, pp 40-49 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract If a doctor measures a patient’s blood pressure, it is possible that she can make a good diagnosis; there are various illnesses correlated to high (or low) blood pressure. But if the doctor measures only blood pressure, and nothing else, she might be overlooking important health problems. The same happens in the case of poverty when it is measured exclusively through income. There are other dimensions, such as access to social rights, which are important and should be considered alongside the measurement of income.

Keywords: Poverty Alleviation; Social Program; Social Deprivation; Extreme Poverty; Poverty Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137529718_3

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