Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis

Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn and Stephen D. Younger

Chapter 14 in Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, 2008, pp 244-261 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is a common assertion that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, yet most empirical work on poverty uses a one-dimensional yardstick, usually household expenditures or income per capita or per adult equivalent, to judge a person’s well-being. When studies use more than one indicator of well-being, poverty comparisons are either made for each indicator independently of the others,3 or are performed using an arbitrarily defined aggregation of the multiple indicators into a single index .4 In either case, aggregation across multiple welfare indicators, and across the welfare statuses of individuals or households, requires specific aggregation rules that are necessarily arbitrary.5 Multidimensional poverty comparisons also require estimation of multidimensional poverty lines, a procedure that is problematic even in a unidimensional setting.

Keywords: Poverty Line; Human Development Index; Poverty Measure; Multidimensional Poverty; Poverty Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582354_14

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