Seth, S orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6977 and Alkire, S (2017) Did Poverty Reduction Reach the Poorest of the Poor? Complementary Measures of Poverty and Inequality in the Counting Approach. In: Bandyopadhyay, S, (ed.) Research on Economic Inequality. Research on Economic Inequality, 25 . Emerald , Bingley , pp. 63-102. ISBN 978-1-78714-522-1
Abstract
A number of multidimensional poverty measures that respect the ordinal nature of dimensions have recently been proposed within the counting approach framework. Besides ensuring a reduction in poverty, however, it is important to monitor distributional changes to ensure that poverty reduction has been inclusive in reaching the poorest. Distributional issues are typically captured by adjusting a poverty measure to be sensitive to inequality among the poor. This approach, however, has certain practical and conceptual limitations. It conflicts, for example, with some policy-relevant measurement features, such as the ability to decompose a measure into dimensions post-identification and does not create an appropriate framework for assessing disparity in poverty across population subgroups. In this chapter, we propose and justify the use of a separate decomposable inequality measure – a positive multiple of “variance” – to capture the distribution of deprivations among the poor and to assess disparity in poverty across population subgroups. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach through two contrasting inter-temporal illustrations using Demographic Health Survey data sets for Haiti and India.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Research on Economic Equality. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Inequality decomposition, inequality among the poor, multidimensional poverty, counting approach, variance decomposition, Haiti, India |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 May 2017 11:44 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2018 10:33 |
Published Version: | https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Emerald |
Series Name: | Research on Economic Inequality |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116079 |