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How not to Measure Poverty*
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Oct
21st 2024, Prabhat Patnaik
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Several
international organisations are now engaged in the business
of measuring what they call "poverty". The
World Bank has been in it for some time, but now we
have a new measure of "Multidimensional Poverty"
brought out by the UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human
Development Initiative (OPHI).
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This article was originally published in the Peoples
Democracy on October 20, 2024.
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