Intertemporal poverty comparisons

Intertemporal poverty comparisons

This paper deals with the problem of making general comparisons of well-being when wellbeing is measured in multiple dimensions. We note at the outset that much of the literature on the measurement of well-being incorporates multiple dimensional indicators of well-being by adding them up, such as when food and non-food expenditures are aggregated to compute total expenditures and assess monetar...

Document de Recherche no 2012-13 “Intertemporal poverty comparisons”

The paper deals with poverty orderings when the value of multidimensional attributes can be compared on a same scale, such as with income of different types or from different members of the same household. The dominance criteria extend the power of earlier multidimensional dominance tests (see Duclos et al. 2006) by making (reasonable) assumptions on the relative marginal contributions of each ...

Multi-dimensional Intertemporal Poverty in Rural China

We analyse intertemporal poverty in two important dimensions – income and nutrition – in less developed northwest China during 2000-2004. A generalised recursive selection model is proposed which enables simultaneous estimation of the causes of intertemporal poverty within and between dimensions. Improvement in agricultural production is crucial for reducing both dimensions of intertemporal pov...

Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons

We investigate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines. In contrast to earlier work, our methodology applies equally well to what can be defined as “union”, “intersection” or “intermediate” approaches to deal...

Consistent Poverty Comparisons and Inference