1. What are the contributions in this paper?
This working paper introduces the notation and basic concepts that are used throughout the OPHI Working Papers 82-91.. The Paper has five sections.. First the authors review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures of income poverty as many methods presented in OPHI Working Paper 84 ( Chapter 3 – Overview of Methods for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment ) as well as the measure presented in OPHI Alkire, Foster, Seth, Santos, Roche and Ballon 2: Framework The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative ( OPHI ) is a research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, at the University of Oxford.. This publication will be published on OPHI website and will be archived in Oxford University Research Archive ( ORA ) as a Green Open Access publication.. The author may submit this paper to other journals.. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author ( s ).. The second section introduces the notation and basic concepts for multidimensional poverty measurement that are used in subsequent chapters.
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2. What are the principles that require a measure to be sensitive to the association between dimensions?
The principles that require a measure to be sensitive to the association between dimensions refer to a specific type of rearrangement of the achievements across the population that the authors call ‗association decreasing rearrangement‘.
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3. What is the way to construct a person‘s welfare from her vector of achievements?
One possibility, from a welfarist approach, would be to construct each person‘s welfare from her vector of achievements using a utility function 1( , , )i i idx u x x .
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4. What is the definition of a dimensional rearrangement among the poor?
Dimensional rearrangement among the poor, as defined above, covers only switches of achievements and deprivations in deprived dimensions among people who are and remain poor, and excludes permutations of corresponding deprivation matrices.
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