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Investigating Multidimensional Poverty across the Regions in the Sindh Province of Pakistan

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The concept of poverty has gone beyond the monetary attributes to cover several dimensions directly influencing the level of individuals’ socio-economic status. Based on this methodological advancement, this study aims to approximate the deprivation of education, health and housing facilities to analyze the incidence of multidimensional poverty (MDP) at regional levels in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Findings revealed that the magnitude of MDP varies significantly across the regions due mainly to the variation in the deprivation levels of socio-economic aspects. Furthermore, the magnitude of MDP is higher in rural areas than urban areas in each region.

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Funding support for this study was provided by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan through funds allocated to the first author for Ph.D. research. Immeasurable cooperation was extended by Mr. Hasnain Mehdi (Additional Secretary at the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Islamabad) and Mr. Ameer Muhammad Khan Niazi (Deputy Secretary at the Establishment Department, Islamabad) in procurement of needed data for this study. Also, the immense support was extended during the whole research phase by Maqsood Sadiq Butt (Director of Population Census Department, Islamabad) and the staff at the Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics in the Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. We extend our sincere thanks to all of them. Last but not the least, we extend our heartiest thanks to Dr. Sabina Alkire from whom the whole idea of MDP was borrowed by Dr. Saboor during his visit in University of Oxford.

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  1. Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Murree Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Atta Ullah Khan, Abdul Saboor, Shumaila Sadiq & Abdul Qayyum Mohsin

  2. Department of Economics, University of Haripur, Hattar Road, Haripur, Pakistan

    Abid Hussain

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Khan, A.U., Saboor, A., Hussain, A. et al. Investigating Multidimensional Poverty across the Regions in the Sindh Province of Pakistan. Soc Indic Res 119, 515–532 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0511-8

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