Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being

Yele Batana and Jean-Yves Duclos

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Abstract: This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS (Demography and Health Surveys) for several countries in Western Africa. The results show the existence of multidimensional dominance relationships between most of these countries.

Keywords: Stochastic dominance; multidimensional poverty; empirical likelihood tests; bootstrap tests; West Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C11 C12 C30 C39 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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