Revising the global multidimensional poverty index: empirical insights and robustness
Alkire, Sabina (University of Oxford)
Kanagaratnam, Usha (University of Oxford)
Nogales, Ricardo (Universidad Privada Boliviana)
Suppa, Nicolai (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	The global Multidimensional Poverty Index, published annually since 2010, captures acute multidimensional poverty in the developing world. In 2018, five of its ten indicators were revised with the purpose of aligning the index to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) insofar as current data permit. This paper provides comprehensive analyses of the consequences of this revision from three perspectives. First, we thoroughly discuss new empirical insights for 105 countries in the developing world based on a data set including 8. 78 million individual observations. Second, we analyze the robustness of country orderings to changes in key parameters, including the poverty cutoff and dimensional weights. Third, we compare the revised and the original specifications by implementing both on the same 105 national data sets. The country orderings in the revised specification are found to be robust to a range of plausible parametric alternatives. Largely, these country orderings are at least as robust as the original one.
Grants:	European Commission 637768 Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades IJCI-2017-33950
Note:	Altres ajuts: CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Multidimensional poverty ; Poverty measurement ; Poverty comparisons ; Joint distribution of deprivations ; Robustness
Published in:	Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 68 (2022) , p. 347-384, ISSN 1475-4991

DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12573

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