IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pid/journl/v51y2012i4p493-504.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement in Pakistan: Time Series Trends and Breakdown

Author

Listed:
  • Taseer Salahuddin

    (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore)

  • Asad Zaman

    (International Institute of Islamic Economics, International Islamic University, Islamabad)

Abstract

Traditionally poverty has been understood only as ‘lack of income’. However, with the passage of time it was realised that poverty is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Mahboob-ul-Haq (1973) and Sen (1975) argued that development is about enlarging human capabilities, rather than only acquisition of wealth. The purpose of this research is to argue that poverty being multidimensional in nature, cannot be properly measured by unidimensional (income or calorie based) poverty measures. This study has utilised Alkire-Foster Multidimensional (AFM) poverty measure (2007) for building time-series trends of poverty in Pakistan from 1998-2006. The results show that multidimensional poverty measures provide more elaborate and precise picture of poverty. Instead of an absolute poverty line, the AFM measure depicts a spectrum of poverty levels from border-line cases to absolutely poor people. Furthermore, time-series trends of deprivations in multiple dimensions have been built at provincial level in Pakistan. This study demonstrates that people of Pakistan are highly deprived in education and health. Education has shown worst deterioration in past decade and a half. Unfortunately, it is this dimension, which is the foundation for capabilities development in the long run.

Suggested Citation

  • Taseer Salahuddin & Asad Zaman, 2012. "Multidimensional Poverty Measurement in Pakistan: Time Series Trends and Breakdown," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 51(4), pages 493-504.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:51:y:2012:i:4:p:493-504
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2012/Volume4/493-504.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hameed, Abdul & Padda, Ihtsham ul Haq & Karim, Shahid, 2016. "Multidimensional Poverty Mapping for Rural Pakistan," MPRA Paper 85022, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Zaman, Qamar uz & Zhao, Yuhuan & Zaman, Shah & Alenezi, Marim & Jehan, Noor, 2023. "Spatial evaluation of multidimensional energy poverty between farming and non-farming communities of agro-climatic zones of Pakistan," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    3. Aneela Qadir & Muhammad Arshad & Waqar Ahmad & Muhammad Rafique & Wang Rongdang, 2023. "An Evaluation of Uni and Multidimensional Poverty Among Farming and Non-Farming Community," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 166(1), pages 175-199, February.
    4. Taseer Salahuddin & Alia Ahmed, 2019. "Multidimensional Deprivation Spectrum: A Step Forward from Alkire–Foster Methodology," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, April.
    5. Tabish Nawab & Saqlain Raza & Malik Shahzad Shabbir & Ghulam Yahya Khan & Sana Bashir, 2023. "Multidimensional poverty index across districts in Punjab, Pakistan: estimation and rationale to consolidate with SDGs," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 1301-1325, February.
    6. Muhammad Afzal & Shamim Rafique & Farhan Hameed, 2015. "Measurement of Living Standards Deprivation in Punjab Using AF Method Periodical Comparison Approach)," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 54(4), pages 739-763.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Poverty; Poverty Measurement; Multidimensional Poverty; Capabilities Approach; Alkire-Foster Measure;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:51:y:2012:i:4:p:493-504. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Khurram Iqbal (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pideipk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.