Robust Ordinal Comparisons of Multidimensional Poverty Between South Africa and Egypt

Sami Bibi () and AbdelRahmen El Lahga ()

Revue d’économie du développement, 2008, vol. 16, issue 5, 37-65

Abstract: It is common to argue that poverty is a multidimensional issue. Yet, few studies have included the various dimensions of deprivation to yield a broader and fuller picture of poverty. The present paper discusses the ethical foundations of the main approaches dealing with multidimensional poverty measures. An illustration of these measures to household data from Egypt and South Africa is proposed using complete and partial bidimensional poverty orderings. JEL classification: D31, D63, I32

Keywords: multidimensional poverty; robustness analysis; South Africa; Egypt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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