Abstract
Using data on food insecurity in Israel, this chapter suggests borrowing techniques from the literature on multidimensional poverty to measure food insecurity, a distinction being made between “nominal” and “real” food insecurity. Various counting techniques are then implemented, including the well-known approach of Alkire and Foster. The chapter ends with a section where, following recent work by Dhongde, Li, Pattanaik, and Xu (2016), a distinction is also made between “basic” and “non-basic” dimensions of food insecurity.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Research on Economic Inequality |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| Pages | 89-108 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Research on Economic Inequality |
|---|---|
| Volume | 26 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1049-2585 |
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Keywords
- Alkire and Foster index
- Counting approach
- Food security
- HFSS questionnaire
- Israel
- Multidimensional poverty
