A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

Arbeitspapier

The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and useful, the multidimensional poverty index is in reality inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights principles of indivisibility, inalienability, and equality. We show that a first-order dominance methodology maintains consistency with basic principles, discuss the properties of the multidimensional poverty index and first-order dominance, and apply the measures to 26 African countries. We conclude that the multidimensional poverty index and first-order dominance are useful complements that should be employed in tandem.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-300-4
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2017/76

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Distribution: Other ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Thema: first-order dominance ; multidimensional welfare measurement ; sub-Saharan Africa ; Demographic and Health Survey ; human rights-based approach

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Arndt, Channing ; Mahrt, Kristi ; Hussain, M. Azhar ; Tarp, Finn
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/300-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/163059
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ