A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of well-being might not be fully captured through monetary...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/529491623166773607/A-Roadmap-for-Countries-Measuring-Multidimensional-Poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35808 |
| Summary: | Traditional measures of poverty have
focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum
threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods
and services. However, important aspects of well-being might
not be fully captured through monetary measures alone.
Multidimensional poverty measures seek to address this
shortfall and have been adopted as an official indicator for
the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) as “SDG 1.2.2: Proportion of men,
women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its
dimensions according to national definitions.” A particular
feature of SDG Indicator 1.2.2, as opposed to others in the
Global SDG Indicator Framework, is that a global methodology
is not mandated, and each country is therefore expected to
define its own national measure of multidimensional poverty.
As custodians for SDG Indicator 1.2.2, governments are
responsible for reporting their measure of national
multidimensional poverty into the Global SDG Indicator
database. As partner agencies working together to support
member states in their custodianship of SDG 1.2.2., UNDP,
UNICEF and World Bank have jointly produced this document to
offer a roadmap for governments seeking to design and adopt
a measure of multidimensional poverty. The roadmap presents
the rationale for developing such measures, an overview of
the main approaches, and a general guideline for the steps
to follow. Through real country examples, the document
highlights many possible outcomes of the decision-making
process required to adopt a successful measure of
multidimensional poverty. |
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