This paper explores the axiomatic foundation of multidimensional poverty indices. Departing from the income approach which measures poverty by aggregating shortfalls of incomes from a pre-determined poverty-line income, a multidimensional index is a numerical representation of shortfalls of basic needs ...
population - live in multidimensional poverty. Why is this better than the Human Poverty Index (HPI) previously used in the HDR? The MPI will replace the HPI, which had been published since 1997. Pioneering in its day, the HPI used country averages to reflect aggregate deprivations in ...
Considering the novel weighting approach, this paper contributes to the literature on composite indicators by suggesting a channel to enclose the dependence structure in the multidimensional poverty index.doi:10.1007/s11205-020-02412-wKateryna Tkach...
多维贫穷 is the translation of "multidimensional poverty" into Chinese. Sample translated sentence: A multidimensional poverty index was being developed in order to formulate more targeted poverty-reduction policies and strategies. ↔ 正在制定一项多层面贫穷指标,以拟定更具针对性的减贫政策和战略。 mult...
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme showed that, in the 101 countries studied -- 31 low income, 68 middle income and two high income -- 1.3 billion people are "multidimensionally poor," which means that poverty is defined not simply by income...
,ndings of the new index and shows how the measure can be used by governments,development agencies,and other institutions to help eradicate acute poverty Income What does it mean to l ive in poverty?This question has often been answered by lack of income,but the traditional narrow focus on ...
The Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI is an international poverty measure developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the United Nations Development Programme's flagship Human Development Report. The innovative index reflects the multiple deprivations that a poor person...
mpindex offers a set of easy-to-use functions for computing Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) using the Alkire-Foster (AF) counting method developed by Sabina Alkire and James Foster. Learn more in vignette("mpindex") and ?compute_mpi. Installation To install the mpindex package from CRAN...
Firstly, multidimensional poverty of urban poor household in Guwahati city is related to their: (a) migration status; (b) work status; (c) social Status; and (d) literacy status. Secondly, multidimensional poverty of urban poor households in Guwahati city is not related to their income status...
Urban povertySlumsSpatialityMultidimensional poverty index (MPI)BangladeshPoverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, and spatiality is an important dimension for defining a multidimensional poverty index (MPI). Acknowledging the fact that spatiality is dependent on scale, the MPI of six slums, selected ...