Counting and Multidimensional Poverty
OPHI Research in Progress
A non-technical policy-oriented summary of Working Paper 07 by Alkire and Foster, which was presented at the IFPRI meetings in Beijing, October 2007.
Citation: Alkire, S. and Foster, J. (2007). 'Counting and Multidimensional Poverty', OPHI Research in Progress 1a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
See also OPHI Working Paper 32 (2009) and OPHI Working Paper 07 (2008).
A later version of this paper is also published in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, Vol. 95(7–8), pp. 476–487.
Keywords:
multidimensional poverty, poverty measurement, MDGs