Multidimensional Poverty Analysis : Looking for a Middle Ground

By Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Maria Ana Lugo. 2012

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Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions, clashes with often vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing on the recent literature, this short note proposes three methodological alternatives to the false dichotomy between scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a “dashboard” approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These alternatives include simple Venn diagrams of the overlap of deprivations across dimensions, multivariate stochastic dominance analysis, and the analysis of copula functions, which capture the extent of interdependency across dimensions. Examples from the literature on both developing and developed countries are provided.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. A. Zezza
2. Marcio Cruz
3. B. Quillin
4. Yang Zhou
5. Yan-sui Liu
6. James E. Foster
7. P. Schellekens

In Safety Research

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Marcio Cruz
4. B. Quillin
5. P. Schellekens
6. A. Zezza
7. James E. Foster
8. C. Mills

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Marcio Cruz
4. B. Quillin
5. P. Schellekens
6. A. Zezza
7. Raka Banerjee
8. Jilai Liu

Citations in the corpus

• Towards better measurement of household food security: Harmonizing indicators and the role of household surveys (2013, background): “7 Ferreira and Lugo (2012) also provide a useful, succinct, and up-to-date”
• Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, unknown): “…of multidimensional indices proposed by Alkire and Foster (2011a, 2011b), see, among others, Birdsall (2011), Rippin (2010), Ferreira (2011), Ravallion (2011a, 2012a), Silber (2011), Thorbecke (2011), Ferreira and Lugo (2013), Duclos and Tiberti (forthcoming), and the reply by Alkire et al. (2011).”
• Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, background): “…to multidimensional characteristics including income, education, health, nutrition, resources, environment and location (Alkire and Foster, 2011; Liu and Xu, 2016; Ferreira and Lugo, 2013; Alkire and Sumner, 2013; Alkire and Seth, 2015; Bader et al., 2016; Feeny and McDonald, 2016).”
• Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015, background): “The association between the components of poverty when measured in all of its dimensions are generally strong given that the poor tend to be simultaneously deprived in multiple dimensions (Ferreira and Lugo 2013).”