期刊全称 | Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty | 期刊简称 | Theory and Case Stud | 影响因子2023 | Louis-Marie Asselin | 视频video | | 发行地址 | 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 computationa | 学科分类 | Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | 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 measurin | Pindex | Book 2009 |
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