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Poverty, inequality and the people averages hide

Monetary and multidimensional poverty side by side; child poverty; inequalities between groups defined by gender, ethnicity, language and place; data fine-grained enough to see small and vulnerable groups.

The founder's publications on this line

  • Ballón, P., Cockburn, J., Dessy, S., & Diarra, S. (2018). Child monetary poverty and multidimensional deprivations: why they differ. Journal of African Economies, 27(4), 483–512. Link
  • Ballon, P., & Duclos, J.-Y. (2016). A comparative analysis of multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. African Development Review, 28(S2), 132–161. DOI
  • Alkire, S., Foster, J., Seth, S., Santos, M. E., Roche, J. M., & Ballon, P. (2015). Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis. Oxford University Press.

Builds on: why child monetary and multidimensional poverty differ (2018); poverty in Sudan and South Sudan (2016); the Alkire-Foster book (2015).