Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Issues

Nicole Rippin
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Nicole Rippin: German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Chapter Chapter 3 in Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation, 2017, pp 31-67 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter deals with the two concepts of efficiency and distributive justice in multidimensional poverty measures. The concepts, though clearly related, are not the same, yet they are usually equated in one way or the other in multidimensional poverty measurement. In other words, multidimensional poverty measures either focus on the spread of simultaneous deprivations across the population (distribution-sensitivity) or the relationship between different poverty dimensions (association-sensitivity or efficiency). This chapter brings these two concepts together by measuring multidimensional poverty more holistically as the association-sensitive spread of simultaneous deprivations across the population. Focusing on ordinal poverty measures, it provides axiomatic justification for distribution- and association-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures by using a new Sensitivity to Inequality Increasing Switch axiom. The resulting class of ordinal poverty measures is unique in the sense that it is association- and distribution-sensitive as well as fully decomposable. An empirical application for India illustrates the distinctive characteristics of these poverty measures.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58368-6_3

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