Where Did Identification Go?

James Foster (), Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos ()
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Maria Emma Santos: Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET and Department of International Development,Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

Working Papers from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: We recently introduced a general method for measuring poverty when there are multiple dimensions [1,2] and provided a specific cross-country implementation (the MPI) as part of the 2010 Human Development Report [4,11] to complement existing methods. Our recent piece in the Journal of Economic Inequality (JEI) (also OPHI Working Paper 43) sought to clarify the presentation and address possible misunderstandings [3]. The present note – a longer version of the one published in JEI – responds to Martin Ravallion's paper in the same issue, and also benefited from contributions by other authors in that Forum. We value this exchange and vigorous debate and hope it will ultimately lead to better measures and policies.

Keywords: poverty measurement; multidimensional poverty; deprivation; FGT measures; decomposability; joint distribution; axioms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I3 I32 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2011-09
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