Efficiency analysis and poverty measurement

Gordon Anderson

Chapter 46 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 501-510 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: As a result of the development of the Functionings and Capabilities Approach to wellbeing assessment, Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation measurement has become popular in recent years. To this end, Efficiency Analysis techniques have been borrowed from the multidimensional production theory literature and implemented in the wellbeing measurement paradigm to explore the extent of poverty in multidimensional environments. Two basic approaches prevail in the literature, a parametric isoquant estimation approach and a non-parametric data envelopment approach. This chapter outlines the two basic approaches and their origins and discusses their respective merits in their application to wellbeing measurement.

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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