Abstract
This paper reviews the main problem that have to be faced when taking a multidimensional approach to poverty and gives a survey of the solutions that have hitherto been proposed to solve these problems. The paper starts with a quick summary of the cardinal approach to uni-dimensional poverty analysis. After that, it reviews the cardinal ordinal approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement. It is also stressed that there is a qualititive approach to poverty measurement.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 29-73 |
| Number of pages | 45 |
| Journal | Hacienda Publica Espanola |
| Volume | 182 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Cardinal approach
- Multidimensional poverty
- Ordinal measurement