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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Main Authors: World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-358082021-06-23T05:11:27Z A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty World Bank UNDP UNICEF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS SDG 1.2.2 BASIC NEEDS POVERTY MEASUREMENT SOCIAL EXCLUSION CHILD POVERTY DEPRIVATION AGGREGATION POVERTY LINE 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. 2021-06-22T18:13:07Z 2021-06-22T18:13:07Z 2021-06-08 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/529491623166773607/A-Roadmap-for-Countries-Measuring-Multidimensional-Poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35808 English Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Insight; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment
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topic SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
SDG 1.2.2
BASIC NEEDS
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
CHILD POVERTY
DEPRIVATION
AGGREGATION
POVERTY LINE
spellingShingle SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
SDG 1.2.2
BASIC NEEDS
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
SOCIAL EXCLUSION
CHILD POVERTY
DEPRIVATION
AGGREGATION
POVERTY LINE
World Bank
UNDP
UNICEF
A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
relation Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Insight;
description 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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UNDP
UNICEF
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UNDP
UNICEF
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title A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
title_short A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
title_full A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
title_fullStr A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
title_full_unstemmed A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
title_sort roadmap for countries measuring multidimensional poverty
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