Maria Emma Santos

Measuring acute poverty in the Developing World: robustness and scope of the multidimensional poverty index

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related
- 01/03/2013
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative

Acute multidimensional poverty: a new index for Developing Countries

In this paper OPHI presents details of new Multidimensional Poverty Index developed for 104 developing countries. This will be featured in the forthcoming UNDP HDR 2010 & replaces the Human Poverty Index used in these reports since 1997.<br />
- 01/07/2010
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
Multidimensional poverty index

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has developed a new international measure of poverty
- 01/07/2010
- University of Oxford

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