Analysis of multidimensional poverty
Subtitle: theory and case studies
By: Louis-Marie Asselin ; contributions from Jean-Bosco Ki, Vu Tuan Anh
Series: Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being -- v. 7; Economic studies in inequality, social exclusion and well-being -- v. 7.
Publisher: Springer Verlag; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781441909053; 9781441908421; 9781441908438
Description: "This book puts forward an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, size and qualitative as well as quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual household or socio-demographic entity. It allows for the integration of the sets of techniques already available or forthcoming in the area of income poverty into the analysis of multidimensional poverty. The core of the methodology rests on a solution to the issue of aggregation across the multiple sub-dimensions of poverty. The rationale of the proposed solution is based on the exploration of the internal structure of association between these sub-dimensions of poverty." "The author illustrates the conceptual debates on the dimensions of poverty and on the measurement methodologies with empirical studies showing the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches by dividing the book into two parts. The first part, which is theoretical, develops the rationale underlying the proposed methodology with numerical examples. The second part presents two case studies, one from Vietnam and the other from Senegal, using the methodology outlined in the first part. Both case studies are based on large household surveys implemented by the different national statistical offices."--Jacket.
Notes: Title from title page of source document.

Includes bibliographical references and index.