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This chapter introduces the topic of multidimensional poverty, focusing on its emergence as a metric to gauge deprivation and on the shortcomings of income- and consumption-based measures. Having established a basis for examination of deprivation as a multidimensional phenomenon, we close the chapter with a “road map” for the remainder of the volume.
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White, R. (2017). Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: An Introduction. In: White, R. (eds) Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation. Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58368-6_1
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