Comparing Multidimensional Poverty between Egypt and Tunisia

Sami Bibi (sami.bibi@icloud.com)

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Abstract: It is common to argue that poverty is a multidimensional issue. Yet few studies have included the various dimensions of deprivation to yield a broader and fuller picture of poverty. The present paper considers the multidimensional aspects of deprivation by specifying a poverty line for each aspect and combines their associated one-dimensional poverty-gaps into multidimensional poverty measures. An application of these measures to compare poverty between Egypt and Tunisia is illustrated using robustness analysis and household data from each country.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty indices; Robustness analysis; Egypt; Tunisia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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