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Multidimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues

In: The Many Dimensions of Poverty

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  • Erik Thorbecke

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Our understanding of the concept of poverty has improved and deepened considerably in the last three decades or so following Amartya Sen’s seminal work. Presently we possess the analytical tools to identify and locate the poor, to describe their characteristics and to measure the extent of poverty at different levels of aggregation. Yet, in spite of spectacular methodological advances in the analysis of poverty a number of conceptual and measurement issues remains to be addressed or further clarified. Ravi Kanbur (2002) has argued that the research on distributional issues in economics and development economics in the last thirty years can be divided roughly into two periods: (i) the 1970s to the mid-1980s and (ii) the mid-1980s to the end of the last century. The first 15 years were a ‘period of great conceptual leaps and ferment’ while the second period was marked by ‘consolidation, application and fierce policy debate’. Very recent methodological contributions suggest that we are entering a period of resurgence in research attempting to sharpen and broaden our view of poverty.

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  • Erik Thorbecke, 2013. "Multidimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Nanak Kakwani & Jacques Silber (ed.), The Many Dimensions of Poverty, chapter 1, pages 3-19, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59240-7_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230592407_1
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    1. Bird, Kate & Chabé-Ferret, Bastien & Simons, Alexandre, 2022. "Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    2. Bessell, Sharon & Siagian, Clara & Bexley, Angie, 2020. "Towards child-inclusive concepts of childhood poverty: The contribution and potential of research with children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    3. Thorbecke, Erik & Ouyang, Yusi, 2022. "Towards A Virtuous Spiral Between Poverty Reduction And Growth: Comparing Sub Saharan Africa With The Developing World," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    4. Christopher T. Whelan & Mario Lucchini & Maurizio Pisati & Maitre, Bertrand, 2009. "Understanding the Socio-Economic Distribution and Consequences of Patterns of Multiple Deprivation: An Application of Self-Organising Maps," Papers WP302, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
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    6. Klasen, Stephan & Villalobos, Carlos, 2020. "Diverging identification of the poor: A non-random process. Chile 1992–2017," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
    7. Agnieszka Sompolska-Rzechuła & Agnieszka Kurdyś-Kujawska, 2022. "Assessment of the Development of Poverty in EU Countries," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-18, March.
    8. Anh Thu Quang Pham & Pundarik Mukhopadhaya & Ha Vu, 2021. "Estimating poverty and vulnerability to monetary and non-monetary poverty: the case of Vietnam," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(6), pages 3125-3177, December.
    9. Bruno Cheli & Achille Lemmi & Nicoletta Pannuzi & Andrea Regoli, 2019. "From the TFR to the IFR approach for the multidimensional analysis of poverty and living conditions," Discussion Papers 2019/252, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

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