Dynamic Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty, 2012: Shabana Mitra

This research workshop held in Oxford 21-22 November 2012, discussed the ‘Dynamic Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty’.

The workshop saw 17 papers presented: two of them on multidimensional poverty methods; two on monetary poverty; and 13 in which monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty were compared in different countries, including Bhutan, India, Nepal, Uganda, Vietnam, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa.

Shabana Mitra, Visiting Scholar, University of Oslo, Norway shares her takeaways.