Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index

By S. Alkire, Maria Emma Santos. 2013

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This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals and to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 developing countries. After presenting the MPI, we analyse its scope and robustness, with a focus on the data challenges and methodological issues involved in constructing and estimating it. A range of robustness tests indicate that the MPI offers a reliable framework that can complement global income poverty estimates.

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

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Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni-dimensional Income Poverty: An Evidence of Stability Analysis from China (2019, methodology): “Following them (Alkire and Santos 2014), this paper also chooses these three dimensions.”
A Multidimensional Approach: Poverty Measurement & Beyond (2013, neutral): “…ratio); (3) that it is too sensitive to weights (but our empirical results of robustness tests for the MPI 2010 do not support such critique, see Alkire and Santos 2010, 2013 and Alkire et al. 2010); and (4) that the requirement that indicators are available for the same household are too…”
Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and How? (2015, methodology): “The international MPI, which was developed by Alkire and Santos (2010, 2013) in collaboration with the UNDP and first appeared in the 2010 Human Development Report, is one particular adaptation of the adjusted headcount ratio ( ) proposed in Alkire and Foster (2011).”
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).”
Mapping global patterns of drought risk: An empirical framework based on sub-national estimates of hazard, exposure and vulnerability (2016, methodology): “In order to assess the robustness of the predictive models of drought exposure and vulnerability, we compared their outputs to the outputs of alternative models built with weighting and aggregation schemes inspired by composite measures already existing in the literature, namely the Human Developmen”
China’s poverty alleviation over the last 40 years: successes and challenges (2019, neutral): “…Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 64, pp. 209–228 measurement, including the lack of access to education, medical care, housing and other social deprivation (Bossert et al. 2013; Alkire and Santos 2014; Fan et al. 2015; Liu and Xu 2016; Liu et al. 2017).”
The Multidimensional Livelihood Vulnerability Index – an instrument to measure livelihood vulnerability to change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (2017, neutral): “…aggregated vulnerability cut-off it was again decided to follow the approach of the MPI and choose an aggregated vulnerability cut-off of 33% (see Alkire & Santos, 2013, p. 19f): A household is multidimensionally vulnerable to change if it is vulnerable in regard to 33% or more of the weighted…”
Changes Over Time in Multidimensional Poverty: Methodology and Results for 34 Countries (2017, methodology): “The MPI was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (Alkire, Foster, & Santos, 2011; Alkire & Santos, 2014; UNDP, 2010a, 2010b).”
Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, positive): “62 The adjusted headcount ratio 1( )M c proposed by Alkire and Foster (2011a, 2011b) provides the theoretical basis for the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) developed by Alkire and Santos (2010, 2013, 2014).”
The Quality of Employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective (2020, neutral): “2 shows, countries with low unemployment rates of just over 4%, such as Peru, Mexico, Paraguay and Bolivia have the highest levels of deprivation in the QoE index, lending weight to the Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Mexico Paraguay Peru Uruguay H Male 83% 50% 34% 69% 61% 84% 85% 74% 40% Fema”
Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, background): “…out on opportunities, lack of access to or exclusion from social services and other social deprivation (Wagle, 2002; Park et al., 2002; Alkire and Foster, 2011; Alkire and Sumner, 2013; Bossert et al., 2013; Alkire and Santos, 2014; Alkire and Seth, 2015; Liu et al., 2016; Liu and Xu, 2016).”