The Alkire and Foster approach to measuring multidimensional poverty

Maria Emma Santos

Chapter 32 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 344-354 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter presents the Alkire and Foster methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement, describing the identification method and the family of M_ poverty measures. The chapter then presents an overview of the properties satisfied by these measures, with special emphasis on the M0 measure, which has been the one most extensively implemented in practice. It also briefly reviews the salient applications of M0, discusses the critiques to the methodology and presents recent extensions of the M_ class.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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