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Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: theoretical approaches

In: Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being

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  • Satya R. Chakravarty
  • Nachiketa Chattopadhyay

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Poverty alleviation still occupies a top position in many countries’ economic and political agendas. Although income has a central role in defining poverty and well-being, poverty should, more generally, be framed as a multidimensional phenomenon. Examples of these dimensions are housing, literacy and life expectancy. The scope of this chapter is to present a discussion on the axiomatic approach to the measurement of multidimensional poverty and material deprivation, where the former should encompass all dimensions of well-being, while the latter concerns only the functioning failures related to material living conditions. The chapter ends with a discussion of the main indices proposed in the literature on the measurement of these phenomena.

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  • Satya R. Chakravarty & Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, 2018. "Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: theoretical approaches," Chapters, in: Conchita D’Ambrosio (ed.), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being, chapter 5, pages 153-170, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Bárcena-Martín, Elena & Blázquez, Maite & Moro-Egido, Ana I., 2020. "The role of income pooling and decision-making responsibilities in material deprivation," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 416-428.

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