Multidimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues

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The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010, background): “Thorbecke [131] provides an intuitive overview of the related literature; here we discuss three papers in greater depth.”
Household Livelihood Strategies and Implication for Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas of Central Nepal (2017, background): “Although poverty is a multi-dimensional issue, it is directly associated with a household’s income, asset holding, and other economic activities that mutually generate a household’s livelihood strategy and outcomes [5].”
Using Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators to Analyze Poverty and Social Exclusion: Lessons from Europe?. (2010, background): “Conceptual and measurement issues remain to be addressed in teasing out how best to implement such multidimensional measures (Thorbecke, 2007), and this is likely to be a fruitful area for future development.”
Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, unknown): “More importantly, they may be conceptually inappropriate for welfare comparisons, a task for which they are not devised (Foster and Sen, 1997; Thorbecke, 2007).”