Composite Indices of Development and Poverty: An Application to MDGs

Muro, Pasquale De; Mazziotta, Matteo; Pareto, Adriano

doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9727-z

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“…It is the so-called Mazziotta Pareto Index (MPI) Pareto 2007 and, based on the assumption of ''nonsubstitutability'' of the dimensions, which are assumed have equal importance; no compensation between them is allowed. Applications of the MPI have been carried out in recent years to discuss the millennium development goals (MDG) (De Muro et al 2009), to verify social inequality in the Italian regions (Mazziotta et al 2010a, b), to measure the Italian health infrastructure endowment (Mazziotta and Pareto 2011) and to assess quality of life levels among Italian provinces (Mazziotta and Pareto 2012). Therefore we have aggregated the indicators of each dimension by arithmetic mean and summarized the partial composite indices according to the MPI method.…”

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The Construction of a Synthetic Index Comparing Multidimensional Well-Being in the European Union

2015

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For many years, the quantification and measurement of level of well-being in a society has become an object of study by researchers, economists, international organizations and institutions. The purpose of these researches and applications is mainly the collection of data as accurate and complete as possible, dictating the paths of economic and social development policies, in order to help the economic problem of allocating scarce resources within a community, where not all individual needs can be fully met. The present work is intended as a part of that field. It will undertake the construction of a composite index of multidimensional well-being, through an aggregation of data, able to balance the trade-off between immediacy and completeness of information and to trespass the limits that characterize the commonly used income related measures. The method of factor analysis, which aims at detecting a statistically sufficient number of variables, is used to represent most of the explained variance of the phenomenon. Results are tested with different aggregative processes. This analysis is applied to the reality of the European Union, characterized by deep transformation and cultural, economic and social inequalities

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2015

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“…Nonetheless, consensus was growing-also in light of the evident failure of the structural adjustment programmes of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)-about the irreducibility of these phenomena to the income dimension. (De Muro et al 2010).…”

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Measuring and Monitoring the Achievements of the Millennium Development Goals Through Dynamic Composite Indices

Sessa

2015

Soc Indic Res

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The fight for development and the eradication of poverty, following the decisive shift from a unidimensional perspective grounded in a simplistic monetary approach to a multidimensional conception of the phenomena based on a multidisciplinary peoplecentred approach, has led to the elaboration in the year 2000 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This set of targets-agreed globally to promote human development and respond to the needs of the world's poor-is reaching its established deadline, leaving the international community with the necessity to effectively evaluate MDG achievements and address the challenges posed by the post-2015 agenda. Contrarily to the usual practice that has so far measured such achievements goal by goal, these should be analysed as a whole to provide the picture needed, exhaustive of the level of attainment of all the MDGs. In this work, two non-compensatory dynamic composite indices, the adjusted Mazziotta-Pareto Index (ranking performances) and the Jevons index (measuring speed in time) are used to measure and monitor world regions' performance in fulfilling the MDG objectives since their establishment. As the time available for countries to reach the targets is getting close, the findings are sought to feed the ongoing conclusions and international discourse on the effectiveness of the MDG initiative and degree of results obtained. The conclusive part explains how they could also help identifying the issues that were instrumental to both successes and failures in the implementation of the MDG framework in each sphere, from which to extrapolate potential policy indications to contribute to the post-2015 agenda.

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“…The RISK composite indicator was created following the Reig-Martinez et al Muro et al (2010) composite indicator sets 100 as the mean indicator; values greater than 100, therefore, indicate that there is a high risk of the farm dropping out, while values less than 100 indicate a farm that is profitable and has a good chance of surviving. Table 2 lists the correlations 11 among contextual variables and explanatory variables (i.e.…”

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Analyzing Italian citrus sector by semi-nonparametric frontier efficiency models

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Ferrara

2014

Empir Econ

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In this paper, we carried out an empirical productive analysis on agricultural Italian farms. In this research area, we propose a new approach of stochastic frontier analysis adopting a generalized additive model framework also compared with Stochastic semi-Nonparametric Envelopment of Z variables Data. By using the Italian National Institute of Agricultural Economics micro-data, we were able to map out the overall level of efficiency thereby focusing also on the evaluation of the differences observed due to presence of contextual variables. We obtained overall measures for the citrus sector that suggests an evaluation framework that can uphold policies to encourage and support farms.

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Composite Indices of Development and Poverty: An Application to MDGs

Cited by 140 publications

References 3 publications

The Construction of a Synthetic Index Comparing Multidimensional Well-Being in the European Union

The Construction of a Synthetic Index Comparing Multidimensional Well-Being in the European Union

Measuring and Monitoring the Achievements of the Millennium Development Goals Through Dynamic Composite Indices

Analyzing Italian citrus sector by semi-nonparametric frontier efficiency models

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