Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty in Crisis-Ridden Mozambique

Eva-Maria Egger (), Vincenzo Salvucci and Finn Tarp
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Eva-Maria Egger: UNU-WIDER

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2023, vol. 166, issue 3, No 1, 485-519

Abstract: Abstract Mozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden debt crisis with associated economic slowdown. As the last available national household expenditure survey is from 2014/15, just before these crises started unfolding, there is need for a poverty assessment based on alternative data sources. We study the evolution of multidimensional poverty in Mozambique using survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Using both the standard Alkire–Foster multidimensional poverty index and the first-order dominance (FOD) method, we find that the multidimensional poverty reduction trend observed between 2009–11 and 2015 halted between 2015 and 2018. Meanwhile, the number of poor people increased, mainly in rural areas and in the central provinces. Importantly, the poorest provinces did not improve their rankings over time, and between 2015 and 2018, no progress took place for most areas and provinces, as measured by the FOD approach.

Keywords: First-order dominance; Mozambique; Multidimensional poverty; Multidimensional poverty index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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