Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons

We demonstrate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines. In contrast to earlier work, our methodology applies eq...

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Volume:	116
Main Author:	Jean-Yves Duclos David E. Sahn Stephen D. Younger
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers 01.10.2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	The Economic journal (London) Vol. 116; no. 514; pp. 943 - 968
Data of publication:	20061001
ISSN:	0013-0133 1468-0297
EISSN:	1468-0297
Discipline:	Economics
Bibliography:	Duclos’ research was supported by SSHRC, FCAR and IDRC's MIMAP programme. Sahn's and Younger's participation was supported by the USAID and AERC. An early version of this work was written as a supporting paper for the World Development Report (2000), regarding which we are grateful to Christian Grootaert for his comments and support. We also thank Rob Strawderman and Steve Westin for technical advice, Nicolas Beaulieu and Wilson Perez for their excellent research assistance, and Peter Lambert, Paul Makdissi and Lars Osberg for very useful comments.
Subjects:	Public assistance programs Aggregation Poverty Economic theory Poverty line Wellbeing Children Poverty gap Estimators Growth retardation Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Poverty rate Analysis Economic indicators Spain ORDERINGS DOMINANCE INEQUALITY
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2006 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS