Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assessments....Pages 1-29
The Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty: the Case of Italy in the 1990s....Pages 30-48
The Rasch Model and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement....Pages 49-62
A Cluster Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Switzerland....Pages 63-79
Multidimensional Poverty and Multiple Correspondence Analysis....Pages 80-103
Income, Consumption and Permanent Income: a Mimic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement....Pages 104-117
Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-being Based on Latent Variable Models....Pages 118-134
A Multidimensional Approach to Subjective Poverty....Pages 135-154
Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-being with an Illustration for Catalonia....Pages 155-175
Efficiency Analysis and the Lower Convex Hull Approach....Pages 176-191
Measuring Multidimensional Poverty: The Axiomatic Approach....Pages 192-209
Determining the Parameters of Axiomatically Derived Multidimensional Poverty Indices: An Application Based on Reported Well-Being in Colombia....Pages 210-225
The Order of Acquisition of Durable Goods and the Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty....Pages 226-243
Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis....Pages 244-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-265