Where do the World's Multidimensionally Poor People Live?

From:: Department for International Development
Published: 1 January 2013

Document Type:: Working Paper
Theme:: Social Change
Authors:: Alkire, S., Sumner, A., Roche, J.M.

Abstract

This paper asks where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live? The paper considers how the global distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the sensitivity of findings to widely used (although somewhat arbitrary) country classifications.

Citation

Alkire, S.; Roche, J.M.; Sumner, A. Where do the World’s Multidimensionally Poor People Live? Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Oxford, UK (2013) 32 pp. ISBN 978-1907194481 [OPHI Working Papers]