The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty

Bourguignon, Françoìs; Chakravarty, Satya R.

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“…Multidimensional approaches also allow policy‐makers to design more targeted and group‐specific interventions (Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) ). While there are many competing methodologies for measuring poverty in multidimensional terms (see for example, Tsui ; Bourguignon and Chakravarty ; Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) ), the most popular is the Alkire‐Foster (AF) method which is used to produce the multidimensional poverty index (MPI). This method melds the Atkinson's () ‘counting’ approach to multidimensional poverty with the Foster‐Greer‐Thorbecke (FGT) measures that reflect the depth, breadth and severity of multidimensional poverty (Alkire and Foster ).…”

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Public capital investment, economic growth and poverty reduction in South African Municipalities

Ruch¹,

Geyer

2017

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This study examines the relationship between public-sector capital investment, economic growth and poverty reduction at a municipal level in South Africa between 2001 and 2011. While much progress has occurred since 1994, poverty and inequality remain key developmental challenges for the state. Despite tremendous spending in capital investment programmes over the last decade, it is unclear how much this investment has contributed to the improvement in the living conditions and poverty status of households. Panel regression was used to analyse this relationship and the results support the hypothesis that there is a strong and positive relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. The study's findings indicate that economic growth plays a significant role in reducing poverty; a 1 per cent increase in GVA correlates to between a 1.2 per cent and 1.5 per cent decrease in poverty levels. However, the results indicated relatively large increases in capital investments only result in small poverty reductions. Thus, this study raises doubt about the use of capital investment as a tool towards achieving poverty reduction targets as set by the South African government.JEL classification: I3, O40

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Public capital investment, economic growth and poverty reduction in South African Municipalities

Ruch¹,

Geyer

2017

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Now, the international community and academia bring poverty thematic research into survival vulnerability and risk-bearing networks of the poor people who encounter future risk shock. In China, the mainstream of poverty measurement methods is to study poverty under current standards (Bourguignon and Chakravarty 2019) [3]. Commonly used indicators include poverty rate, poverty gap, and poverty intensity, and some other indicators, all of which are a kind of static measurement method after the event.…”

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The Nexus between Credit Channels and Farm Household Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence from Rural China

Sun

Xiao-hong

2020

Sustainability

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It is well known that finance is at the core of economic activities, and rural finance is an important force for agricultural development, rural economic growth, and farmer income growth, but how rural credit affects vulnerability to poverty of farm households is not yet known. The study on the nexus between the credit channels and vulnerability to poverty can not only realize targeted poverty alleviation but also promote sustainable rural development. This study measures vulnerability to poverty of Chinese farm households by three-stage feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and tests for the impact of two credit channels on farm household's vulnerability to poverty based on China Household Finance Survey data. We mainly found that the proportion of structural poverty in western areas is comparatively large, and risky poverty of farm households in eastern areas is relatively serious. The high education cost may be an important factor in farm household poverty; the cost-effectiveness of education is higher than that of earnings. Farm household vulnerability to poverty with folk loans is 0.2% higher than that of farm households without private credit; however, this is not significant. Farm household vulnerability to poverty with bank credit is 0.4% lower than households without bank credit, which is significant. For farm households who have a higher level of vulnerability to poverty, the effect of bank credit on reducing vulnerability to poverty is greater. Moreover, we replaced the vulnerability-to-poverty variable with a more rigid indicator to test the relationship between the credit channels and vulnerability to poverty and got the same results as before.

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“…The difference between cardinal and ordinal priority implies that the maps g k for the cardinal attributes are strictly increasing and concave, whereas the maps h ℓ for the ordinal attributes are strictly increasing only. A popular functional form for the cardinal attributes is

g_{k} : x_{k} \mapsto w_{k} x_{k}^{β}

with w k > 0 for each k and 0 < β < 1 (e.g., Bourguignon and Chakravarty, ). If the ordinal attributes are binary (the typical setting of what Atkinson, , refers to as the counting approach), the ordinal part becomes a weighted count.…”

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“… Tsui () and Bourguignon and Chakravarty () require poverty to be invariant under changes in non‐deprived attributes. In contrast, monotonicity interprets an increase in a non‐deprived attribute as a (possibly small) improvement. …”

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Prioritarian Poverty Comparisons with Cardinal and Ordinal Attributes

Bosmans

Lauwers

Ooghe

2018

Scandinavian J Economics

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The ethical view of prioritarianism holds that if an extra bundle of attributes is to be allocated to either of two individuals, then priority should be given to the worse off among the two. We consider multidimensional poverty comparisons with cardinal and ordinal attributes and propose three axioms that operationalize the prioritarian view. Each priority axiom, in combination with a handful of standard properties, characterizes a class of poverty measures.

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The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty

Cited by 199 publications

References 18 publications

Public capital investment, economic growth and poverty reduction in South African Municipalities

Public capital investment, economic growth and poverty reduction in South African Municipalities

The Nexus between Credit Channels and Farm Household Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence from Rural China

Prioritarian Poverty Comparisons with Cardinal and Ordinal Attributes

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