Alkire-Foster method
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methodology in development economics
multidimensional poverty measurement method
poverty measurement framework
The Alkire-Foster method is a widely used framework for measuring multidimensional poverty by identifying who is poor and in which overlapping deprivations they experience across several dimensions of well-being.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alkire-Foster method canonical | 5 |
| Alkire-Foster counting approach | 1 |
| Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty measurement | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Alkire-Foster method Context triple: [Multidimensional Poverty Index, methodologyBasedOn, Alkire-Foster method]
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Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index is a global measure that assesses poverty by capturing multiple deprivations in health, education, and living standards at the household and individual level.
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B.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index is a composite statistic that measures a country's average achievements in health, education, and income while accounting for how unequally these achievements are distributed among its population.
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OECD Better Life Index
The OECD Better Life Index is an interactive tool that compares countries’ well-being across multiple dimensions such as income, health, education, and life satisfaction to go beyond traditional economic measures like GDP.
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D.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is a composite statistic that measures a country's overall achievement in key dimensions of human development, including health, education, and standard of living.
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Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities
"Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities" is an influential early 20th-century economic study by Hugh Dalton that analyzes the causes, measurement, and implications of income inequality in industrial societies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alkire-Foster method Target entity description: The Alkire-Foster method is a widely used framework for measuring multidimensional poverty by identifying who is poor and in which overlapping deprivations they experience across several dimensions of well-being.
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A.
Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index is a global measure that assesses poverty by capturing multiple deprivations in health, education, and living standards at the household and individual level.
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B.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index is a composite statistic that measures a country's average achievements in health, education, and income while accounting for how unequally these achievements are distributed among its population.
-
C.
OECD Better Life Index
The OECD Better Life Index is an interactive tool that compares countries’ well-being across multiple dimensions such as income, health, education, and life satisfaction to go beyond traditional economic measures like GDP.
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D.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is a composite statistic that measures a country's overall achievement in key dimensions of human development, including health, education, and standard of living.
-
E.
Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities
"Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities" is an influential early 20th-century economic study by Hugh Dalton that analyzes the causes, measurement, and implications of income inequality in industrial societies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
methodology in development economics
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multidimensional poverty measurement method ⓘ poverty measurement framework ⓘ |
| advantage |
can be decomposed to show contributions of each dimension to overall poverty
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captures joint distribution of deprivations ⓘ provides intuitive and policy-relevant measures ⓘ |
| allows |
context-specific weighting structures
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flexible choice of dimensions and indicators ⓘ |
| appliedBy |
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
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United Nations Development Programme ⓘ national statistical offices ⓘ |
| appliedFor |
monitoring poverty over time
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national multidimensional poverty indices ⓘ targeting and policy design ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
Multidimensional Poverty Index
ⓘ
surface form:
global Multidimensional Poverty Index
|
| basedOn | axiomatic approach to poverty measurement ⓘ |
| characteristic |
allows for censored deprivation counts
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identifies overlapping deprivations across multiple dimensions ⓘ is decomposable by dimension ⓘ is decomposable by population subgroup ⓘ satisfies dimensional monotonicity ⓘ uses a dual cutoff identification strategy ⓘ |
| coreIndex | M0 (adjusted headcount ratio) ⓘ |
| developedBy |
James Foster
ⓘ
Sabina Alkire ⓘ |
| dimensionExample |
education
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employment ⓘ health ⓘ housing ⓘ living standards ⓘ |
| field |
development economics
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poverty analysis ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| influenced | design of official poverty statistics in several countries ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
James Foster
ⓘ
Sabina Alkire ⓘ |
| publicationContext | academic journal articles in economics ⓘ |
| purpose |
aggregation of multidimensional deprivations into poverty indices
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identification of the multidimensionally poor ⓘ measurement of multidimensional poverty ⓘ |
| relatedIndex |
M1 (adjusted poverty gap)
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M2 (adjusted squared poverty gap) ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures
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capability approach to welfare ⓘ |
| timePeriod | developed in the 2000s ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
adjusted headcount ratio
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censored headcount ratio ⓘ deprivation cutoffs for each indicator ⓘ poverty cutoff across dimensions ⓘ weighted deprivation scores ⓘ |
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Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional poverty measurement
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Alkire-Foster counting approach