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Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty

Theory and Case Studies

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Louis-Marie Asselin

    1. Institut de Mathématique Gauss, Lévis, Canada

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  • Unique structure allows for the methodology to be presented in the first part and its applications shown in two case studies in the second
  • Methodology aims to be practical with the use of computational tools that are easily accessible and without any specific limitation on the number or the nature of the poverty indicators used by the analyst
  • Case studies illuminate the applications of the operational methodology developed in part one
  • A comprehensive definition of poverty and its ethical basis is proposed in an annex to the book

Part of the book series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being (EIAP, volume 7)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-6

    3. Indicators and Multidimensionality Analysis

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      Pages 7-18

    4. Composite Indicator of Poverty

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      Pages 19-51

    5. Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality Analysis

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      Pages 53-71

    6. Conclusion

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      Pages 73-74

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 165-210
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About this book

Poverty is a paradoxical state. Recognizable in the eld for any sensitive observer who travels in remote rural areas and urban slums and meets marginalized people in a given society, poverty still remains a challenge to conceptual formalization and to measurement that is consistent with such formalization. The analysis of poverty is multidisciplinary. It goes from ethics to economics, from political science to human biology, and any type of measurement rests on mathematics. Moreover, poverty is multifaceted according to the types of deprivation, and it is also gender and age speci c. A vector of variables is required, which raises a substantial problem for individual and group comparisons necessary to equity analysis. Multidimension- ity also complicates the aggregation necessary to perform the ef ciency analysis of policies. In the case of income poverty, these two problems, equity and ef ciency, have bene ted from very signi cant progress in the eld of economics. Similar achievements are still to come in the area of multidimensional poverty. Within this general background, this book has a very modest and narrow-scoped objective. It proposes an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, the size and the qualitative as well as the quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, a household or a sociodemographic entity.

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  • Institut de Mathématique Gauss, Lévis, Canada

    Louis-Marie Asselin

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