Research Paper: 22a

Is the Multidimensional Poverty Index robust to different weights?

This paper presents the results of robustness tests, which show that the Multidimensional Poverty Index, developed by OPHI for the UNDP Human Development Report, is robust to a range of different weights.

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Authors: Sabina Alkire, Maria Emma Santos, Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky
Copyright holder: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative