Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty across Developing Countries

OPHI Research in Progress

In 2010, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in collaboration with the United National Development Programme (UNDP) introduced a new multidimensional measure of acute poverty for developing countries, referred to as the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) (Alkire and Santos, 2010). This paper focuses on the new analyses of sub-national decompositions and changes over time for 1.4 billion of the 1.65 billion MPI poor people identified by the MPI in 2011. It analyses the incidence, intensity and composition of multidimensional poverty at sub-national levels for 66 developing countries, and presents poverty estimates for 683 sub-national regions.

Citation: Alkire, S., Roche, J.M. and Seth, S. (2011). 'Sub-national disparities and inter-temporal evolution of multidimensional poverty across developing countries', OPHI Research in Progress No. 32a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

Keywords:
intertemporal poverty measurement, change-over-time, multidimensional poverty, low-income countries, middle-income countries, ub-national disparities
Region:
Global

Authors
Sabina Alkire, José Manuel Roche and Suman Seth
Series Name
OPHI research in Progress series
Publication date
2011
Publication Number
RP 32a