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Inequalities in the least developed countriesJournal Article
Introduction to Special Issue on: ‘Inequalities in the Least Developed Countries – Some Lessons from Africa’Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Living Conditions and Basic NeedsPart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Multidimensional poverty in VietnamFor years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which takes into account not only income or consumption of the poor, but also their access to basic needs (education, health, etc.) and...
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Multidimensional poverty of children in MozambiqueWe analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces...
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Robustness tests for multidimensional poverty comparisonsThis paper provides practical tests for the robustness of multidimensional comparisons of well-being. Focussing on counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that the...
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Living conditions and well-beingWe here use five rounds of Afrobarometer data covering more than 100,000 individuals over the 2004-2016 period to explore the link between self-assessed measures of living conditions and objective measures of individual well-being (access to basic...
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Multidimensional poverty of children in MozambiqueWe analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3% can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces. We...
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Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden MozambiqueMozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden debt crisis...
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Extending multidimensional poverty identificationIn the widely-used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role in identifying who is multidimensionally poor. This...
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Evolution of multidimensional poverty in crisis-ridden MozambiqueMozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit and the country started suffering from a hidden debt scandal with associated economic slowdown. As the last available national...
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Counting-based multidimensional poverty identificationIn the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role in identifying who is multidimensionally poor. This...
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A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan AfricaThe rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and...
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Multidimensional poverty and wellbeing in MozambiqueWorking Paper
Mapping deprivation in MozambiqueIn this study we analyse the evolution of deprivation indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index using Mozambican census data for 1997 and 2007. We analyse deprivation levels according to eight different indicators reflecting housing...