Casilda Lasso De La Vega |
Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves A counting approach based
on the number of deprivations suffered by the poor is quite an appropriate
framework to measure multidimensional poverty with ordinal or categorical
data. A method to identify the poor and a number of poverty indices
has been proposed taking this framework into account. The implementation
of this methodology involves the choice of a minimum number of deprivations
required in order for an individual to be identified as poor. This cut-off
and the choice of a poverty measure to aggregate the data are two sources
of arbitrariness in poverty comparisons. |