On multidimensional indices of poverty

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-248

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Multidimensional index; Poverty measurement; Prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959604260     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-011-9173-4     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Alkire, S., Foster, J.: Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Working Paper 7, University of Oxford (2007).
2. Alkire, S., Santos, M. E.: Acute multidimensional poverty: A new index for developing countries. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Working Paper 38, University of Oxford (2010a).
3. Alkire, S., Santos, M. E.: Multidimensional poverty index. Research Brief, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford (2010b).
4. Atkinson, A. B.: On the measurement of poverty. Econometrica 55, 749-764 (1987).
5. Atkinson, A. B., Bourguignon, F.: The comparison of multi dimensional distributions of economic status. Rev. Econ. Stud. 49, 183-201 (1982).
6. Bourguignon, F., Chakravarty, S.: The measurement of multidimensional poverty. J. Econ. Ineq. 1, 25-49 (2003).
7. Chakravarty, S., Deutsch, J., Silber, J.: On the watts multidimensional poverty index and its decomposition. World Dev. 36(6), 1067-1078 (2008).
8. Duclos, J.-Y., Sahn, D., Younger, S.: Robust multidimensional poverty comparisons. Econ. J. 116, 943-968 (2006).
9. Foster, J., Greer, J., Thorbecke, E.: A class of decomposable poverty measures. Econometrica 52, 761-765 (1984).
10. Haddad, L., Kanbur, R.: How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality? Econ. J. 100, 866-881 (1990).
11. Lokshin, M., Ravallion, M.: Rich and powerful? Subjective power and welfare in Russia. J. Econ. Behav. Organ. 56, 141-172 (2005).
12. Ravallion, M.: Poverty Comparisons. Harwood Academic Press, Chur (1994).
13. Ravallion, M.: Mashup indices of development. Policy Research Working Paper 5432, World Bank, Washington DC (2010a).
14. Ravallion, M.: Troubling tradeoffs in the human development index. Policy Research Working Paper 5484, World Bank, Washington DC (2010b).
15. Stiglitz, J., Sen, A., Fitoussi, J. P.: Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. www. stiglitz-sen-fitoussi. fr (2009).
16. Tsui, K.-Y.: Multidimensional poverty indices. Soc. Choice Welf. 19, 69-93 (2002).
17. United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Report. New York: Palgrave Macmillan for the UNDP (2010).
18. Watts, H. W.: An economic definition of poverty. In: Moynihan, D. P. (ed.), On Understanding Poverty. Basic, New York (1968).