14th February 2011
In an interview with The Economic Times on poverty in India, the renowned economist Angus S. Deaton commented on the MPI stating ‘Income is only one dimension of poverty , though clearly an important one. So I very much support the development of multidimensional indexes, and think the OPHI indexes are important. Clearly, they are to some extent still experimental, but this is clearly the right direction in which to go.’ Read more in The Economic Times