Poverty is a paradoxical state. Recognizable in the eld for any sensitive observer who travels in remote rural areas and urban slums and meets marginalized people in a given society, poverty still remains a challenge to conceptual formalization and to measurement that is consistent with such formalization. The analysis of poverty is multidisciplinary. It goes from ethics to economics, from political science to human biology, and any type of measurement rests on mathematics. Moreover, poverty is multifaceted according to the types of deprivation, and it is also gender and age speci c. A vector of variables is required, which raises a substantial problem for individual and group comparisons necessary to equity analysis. Multidimension- ity also complicates the aggregation necessary to perform the ef ciency analysis of policies. In the case of income poverty, these two problems, equity and ef ciency, have bene ted from very signi cant progress in the eld of economics. Similar achievements are still to come in the area of multidimensional poverty. Within this general background, this book has a very modest and narrow-scoped objective. It proposes an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, the size and the qualitative as well as the quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, a household or a sociodemographic entity.

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InhaltsangabeTheory.- Indicators and Multidimensionality Analysis.- Composite Indicator of Poverty.- Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality Analysis.- Conclusion.- Case Studies.- Case Study # Multidimensional Poverty in Senegal: A Nonmonetary Basic Needs Approach.- Case Study # 2 Dynamic Poverty Analysis in Vietnam 1993-2002: Multidimensional Versus Money-Metric Analysis.

Introduction.- Indicators and Multidimensionality Analysis.- Composite Indicator of Poverty.- Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality Analysis.- Conclusion.- Case Study 1: Multidimensional Poverty in Senegal: A Non-Monetary Basic Needs Approach.- Case Study 2: Dynamic Poverty Analysis in Vietnam 1993-2002: Multidimensional versus Moneymetric Analysis.