Measuring Poverty: Taking a Multidimensional Perspective

• Autores: Jacques Silber
• Localización: Documentos de trabajo ( FEDEA ), ISSN 1696-7496, Nº. 14, 2007, págs. 1-53
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper attempts to review the main problems that have to be faced when taking a multidimensional approach to poverty and to give a survey of the solutions that have hitherto been proposed to solve these issues.

    It starts by a quick summary of the cardinal approach to uni-dimensional poverty analysis. It then presents the cardinal approach to multidimensional poverty measurement. An attempt is also made to describe the ordinal approach to poverty measurement and a short section at the end describes some aspects of a more qualitative approach to poverty measurement.