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Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis

In: Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

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  • Jean-Yves Duclos
  • David E. Sahn
  • Stephen D. Younger

Abstract

It is a common assertion that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, yet most empirical work on poverty uses a one-dimensional yardstick, usually household expenditures or income per capita or per adult equivalent, to judge a person’s well-being. When studies use more than one indicator of well-being, poverty comparisons are either made for each indicator independently of the others,3 or are performed using an arbitrarily defined aggregation of the multiple indicators into a single index .4 In either case, aggregation across multiple welfare indicators, and across the welfare statuses of individuals or households, requires specific aggregation rules that are necessarily arbitrary.5 Multidimensional poverty comparisons also require estimation of multidimensional poverty lines, a procedure that is problematic even in a unidimensional setting.

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  • Jean-Yves Duclos & David E. Sahn & Stephen D. Younger, 2008. "Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Nanak Kakwani & Jacques Silber (ed.), Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, chapter 14, pages 244-261, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58235-4_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582354_14
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    1. Espinoza-Delgado, José & Klasen, Stephan, 2018. "Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual based approach," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 466-491.
    2. Espinoza-Delgado, José & López-Laborda, Julio, 2017. "Nicaragua: trend of multidimensional poverty, 2001-2009," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), April.
    3. Espinoza-Delgado, José & López-Laborda, Julio, 2017. "Nicaragua: evolución de la pobreza multidimensional, 2001-2009," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), April.
    4. Rolf Aaberge & Andrea Brandolini, 2014. "Multidimensional poverty and inequality," Discussion Papers 792, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
    5. Espinoza-Delgado, José Luis & López-Laborda, Julio, 2015. "Evolución de la Pobreza Multidimensional en Nicaragua, 2001-2009 [Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement in Nicaragua, 2001-2009]," MPRA Paper 61734, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Espinoza-Delgado, José & López-Laborda, Julio, 2016. "Las tres Is de la pobreza multidimensional en Nicaragua y el diferencial de género en los primeros quince años del siglo XXI, a partir de un enfoque centrado en la persona [The three I’s of multidi," MPRA Paper 74997, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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