Bader, Christoph; Bieri, Sabin; Wiesmann, Urs; Heinimann, Andreas (2016). A different perspective on poverty in Lao PDR: Multidimensional poverty in Lao PDR for the years 2002/2003 and 2007/2008. Social indicators research, 126(2), pp. 483-502. Springer 10.1007/s11205-015-0900-2
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This paper presents an indicator for measuring multidimensional poverty in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic applying the Alkire–Foster methodology to the Lao Expenditure and Consumption Survey 2002/2003 and 2007/2008. We calculated a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) that includes three dimensions: education, health, and standard of living. Making use of the MPI’s decomposability, we analyse how much each of the different dimensions and its respective indicators contribute to the overall MPI. We find a marked reduction in the multidimensional poverty headcount ratio over the study period, regardless of how the indicators are weighted or how the deprivation and poverty cut-offs are set. This reduction is based on improvements regarding all indicators except cooking fuel and nutrition. We observe no significant reduction in the intensity of poverty, however; there are wide disparities between the country’s regions and between urban and rural areas. The proportion of poor people in rural areas is more than twice as high as that in urban areas. By complementing the traditional income-based poverty measure, we hope to provide useful information that can support knowledge-based decision-making for poverty alleviation.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability > Unit Critical Sustainability Studies (CSS) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography 10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) |
Graduate School: |
International Graduate School North-South (IGS North-South) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bader, Christoph, Bieri, Sabin, Wiesmann, Urs Martin, Heinimann, Andreas |
Subjects: |
900 History > 910 Geography & travel 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics |
ISSN: |
0303-8300 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Projects: |
[431] Multidimensional poverty in Lao PDR |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Stephan Schmidt |
Date Deposited: |
10 Apr 2015 10:54 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:44 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s11205-015-0900-2 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.66271 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/66271 |
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