Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement

By S. Alkire, James E. Foster. 2011

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A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond (2013, positive): “We present each in turn following the notation introduced in Alkire and Foster (2011a).”
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America? (2014, background): “See Alkire and Foster (2011) and UNDP (2010) for a comprehensive”
Human Development and Sustainability (2010, background): “Proponents of a multi-dimensional understanding of poverty similarly point toward the multiple dimensions in which people can be deprived and therefore be considered poor (Alkire and Foster, 2011).”
Toward a Greater Understanding of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Informal Economy (2014, background): “More specifically, consistent with extant research (Alkire and Foster, 2011; Hulme and Shepherd, 2003), the authors view poverty as representing not only a function of the Introduction 9”
Multidimensional Poverty Analysis : Looking for a Middle Ground (2012, background): “This rapidly growing literature now includes Alkire and Foster (2011a), Chakravarty, Deutsch, and Silber (2008), Deutsch and Silber (2005), Duclos, Sahn, and Younger (2006), and Maasoumi and Lugo (2008), among others.”
The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (2013, positive): “In this section, we use the second notation, as it is consistent with the M0 measurement (Alkire & Foster, 2011a,b).”
Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies (2015, methodology): “8 The MPI is calculated and reported yearly by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme (Alkire and Foster 2011; Alkire and Santos 2013).”
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: What Have We Learned in a Decade? (2014, background): “Poverty is correctly seen as multidimensional (e.g., Sen 1993 and Alkire & Foster 2011), but in most empirical economics, authors rely on simple incomemeasures.”
Women’s Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal (2015, result): “The WEAI, a survey-based index using individual-level data collected from primary male and female respondents within the same households, is similar in construction to the Alkire-Foster group of multidimensional poverty indices (Alkire & Foster, 2011a, b).”