On multidimensional indices of poverty

By M. Ravallion. 2011

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The contribution of recent “multidimensional indices of poverty” may not be as obvious as one thinks. There are two issues in assessing that contribution: whether one believes that a single index can ever be a sufficient statistic of poverty, and whether one aggregates in the space of “attainments,” using prices when appropriate, or “deprivations,” using weights set by the analyst. The paper argues that we should aim for a credible set of multiple indices rather than a single multidimensional index. Partial aggregation will still be necessary, but ideally the weights should be consistent with well-informed choices by poor people.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

The Quality of Employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: A multidimensional perspective (2020, unknown): “on aggregation for multidimensional indices see critiques in Ravallion (2011) and”
Multidimensional Poverty Analysis : Looking for a Middle Ground (2012, background): “An especially important argument proposed by Ravallion (2011) for the dashboard approach is that the best data on separate dimensions (say, health status and consumption expenditures) are often found in different data sets, from which no joint distribution can be constructed.”
Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement (2011, background): “For recent critiques of multidimensional measurement, see Ravallion [38, 39 ].”
Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty (2012, background): “For further discussion of this point see Ravallion (2011).”
Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni-dimensional Income Poverty: An Evidence of Stability Analysis from China (2019, background): “Ravallion (2011) argued that it should aim for a credible set of multiple indicators.”
Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, unknown): “…class 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…”
Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (2013, background): “Given the novelty of the MPI, many wondered how these choices affect the MPI estimates (Ravallion 2011; Ferreira 2011; Thorbecke 2011, among others).”