Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty

Delamónica, Enrique; Minujin, Alberto

doi:10.1007/s11205-006-9039-5

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“…What happens then if we transform the deprivation scores into attainment scores and then assess 13 Some existing empirical studies use a separate inequality measure for capturing inequality among the poor. See the study on child poverty by Delamonica and Minujin (2007) which was followed by Roche (2013). 14 Relative measures have frequently been used when assessing income inequality.…”

Section: Which Inequality Measure?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach

Seth¹,

Alkire²

2017

Research on Economic Inequality

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A number of multidimensional poverty measures have recently been proposed, within counting approach framework, respecting the ordinal nature of dimensions. Besides ensuring a reduction in poverty, however, it is important to monitor distributional changes to ensure that poverty reduction has been inclusive in reaching the poorest. Distributional issues are typically captured by adjusting a poverty measure to be sensitive to inequality among the poor. This approach however has certain practical and conceptual limitations. It conflicts, for example, with some policy-relevant measurement features, such as the ability to decompose a measure into dimensions post-identification, and does not create an appropriate framework for assessing disparity in poverty across population subgroups. In this paper, we propose and justify the use of a separate decomposable inequality measurea positive multiple of 'variance' -to capture the distribution of deprivations among the poor and to assess disparity in poverty across population subgroups. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach through two contrasting inter-temporal illustrations using Demographic Health Survey (DHS) datasets for Haiti and India.

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Section: Which Inequality Measure?mentioning

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Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach

Seth¹,

Alkire²

2017

Research on Economic Inequality

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“…Besides the deprivation headcount ratios of the aggregated number of deprivations, the Bristol approach also concentrates on the analysis of single dimensions, which is examined by region. Delamonica and Minujín (2007) use the results of the Global Study on Poverty and Disparities as a basis for further analysis of the depth and severity of deprivation. They demonstrate in their paper that countries or households with the same incidence of deprivations experience different levels of severity.…”

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Lost (in) Dimensions

2014

Innocenti Working Papers

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Abstract. Identifying, locating and profiling the poor and deprived individuals in a society are the most basic imperatives for good social policy design. Understanding why people are -and remain -poor is the next analytical step. Multidimensional poverty and deprivation estimates are important new tools in this undertaking. This paper reviews the insights of various contributions from research into multidimensional poverty and deprivation and combines them into an internally consistent framework. The framework adds an important element by emphasising that people may experience various types and forms of poverty and deprivation simultaneously. The experience of poverty is often multifaceted and deprivations are interrelated in many cases. This highlights the necessity to clearly separate the different concepts of poverty and to study their overlap. The proposed framework aims at creating more conceptual clarity and overcoming the challenges that have arisen from some earlier efforts; the main challenge is to avoid "getting lost in (a multitude of) dimensions" when carrying out a series of single-dimensional analyses, and avoiding the "loss of dimensions" when reducing multiple dimensions into a multidimensional poverty index. The paper also makes a distinction between household poverty and child poverty, recognising that children may experience poverty differently to adults and that people's needs differ depending on their age. By articulating key decisions which are made throughout the multidimensional poverty analysis this paper intends to create a more informed understanding of multidimensional poverty analysis for children.

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“…As Delamonica and Minujin (2007) and Alkire andFoster (2007, 2011) observe, the drawback of the headcount is that it does not account for the average intensity of deprivation, much less for depth or severity 3 . The problem is that the headcount ratio remains unchanged when children that are already poor become deprived in an additional dimension, or when their level of deprivation in a particular dimension deteriorates.…”

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Beyond headcount: measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty

Alkire¹,

Roche²

2012

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being

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This paper presents a new approach to child poverty measurement that reflects the breadth and components of child poverty. The Alkire and Foster method presented in this paper seeks to answer the question 'who is poor' by considering the intensity of each child's poverty. Once children are identified as poor, the measures aggregate information on poor children's deprivations in a way that can be broken down to see where and how children are poor. The resulting measures go beyond the headcount by taking into account the breadth, depth or severity of dimensions of child poverty. The paper illustrates one way to apply this method to child poverty measurement, using Bangladeshi data from four rounds of the Demographic Health Survey covering the period 1997-2007. Results for Bangladesh show that the AF adjusted headcount ratio adds value because it produces a different ranking than the simple headcount, because it also reflects the simultaneous deprivations children experience (intensity). Given this, we argue that child poverty should not be assessed only according to the incidence of poverty but also by the intensity of deprivations that batter poor children's lives at the same time. The Bangladesh example is used to illustrate how to compute and interpret the child poverty figures, how the final measure can be broken down by groups and by dimensions in order to analyse child poverty, how to interpret changes over time, and how to undertake robustness checks concerning the poverty cut-off.

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Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty

Abstract: child poverty, child rights, child well-being, children, poverty, poverty measurement,

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach

Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach

Lost (in) Dimensions

Beyond headcount: measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty

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