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Vulnerability to Multi-Dimensional Poverty: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Measurement Approaches

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  • Muhammad Masood Azeem
  • Amin W. Mugera
  • Steven Schilizzi

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This paper investigates whether different measures of ex-post poverty and ex-ante vulnerability to poverty provide consistent estimates of poverty and vulnerability to poverty across households. Moreover, if there is some heterogeneity in the identification of households as poor and vulnerable, it investigates the degree of mismatch between measures? The ex-post monetary poverty (MP) and multidimensional poverty (MDP) measures are used to identify poor households. Likewise, the ex-ante vulnerability to monetary poverty (VMP) and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty (VMDP) measures are used to identify vulnerable households. Using a large household survey data-set of about 90,000 households from the Punjab province of Pakistan, we find that most of the vulnerable households are accurately identified by the ex-ante measures of vulnerability to poverty. However, the ex-post measures of poverty identify different households as poor. Our results show that 18 percent households experiencing MDP are not captured by the one-dimensional measure of MP. The important implication of this study is that the choice of measures does matter in ex-post poverty identification, but not as much in the identification of ex-ante vulnerability to poverty.

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  • Muhammad Masood Azeem & Amin W. Mugera & Steven Schilizzi, 2018. "Vulnerability to Multi-Dimensional Poverty: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Measurement Approaches," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(9), pages 1612-1636, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:54:y:2018:i:9:p:1612-1636
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1344646
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