Multidimensional Poverty Targeting

Jean-Yves Duclos, Luca Tiberti and Abdelkrim Araar

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Abstract: The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of wellbeing in the measurement of poverty has been emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in addition to being concerned with impacts on multiple dimensions of poverty, policy should also consider impacts on their joint distribution. From a positive perspective, it is regularly observed that different poverty dimensions are often correlated and mutually reinforced, especially over time. The paper integrates these two perspectives into a consistent policy evaluation framework. Targeting dominance techniques are also proposed to assess the normative robustness of targeting strategies. The analytical results are applied to data from Vietnam and South Africa and illustrate the role of both normative and positive perspectives in designing efficient multidimensional poverty targeting policies.

Keywords: Targeting; Multidimensional poverty; Efficient policy; Vietnam; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H21 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Journal Article: Multidimensional Poverty Targeting (2018)
Working Paper: Multidimensional poverty targeting (2014)
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