Dynamic Comparison between Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty, 2012: Stephan Klasen

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.

Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany, who chaired the workshop, shares his takeaways.