Macro-level drivers of multidimensional poverty in developing countries: Measuring change in the Human Poverty Index

Dissertation
Prince, P. (2013). Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Developing Countries: Measuring Change in the Human Poverty Index (Doctoral dissertation). The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

pThis study explores the factors that may account for changes in one metric of multidimensional poverty in developing countries, the United Nation Development Programrsquo;s Human Poverty Index, and will be primarily concerned with measuring the effects on the HPI of policies and activities that relate to, or are explicitly meant to encourage, economic growth, increased literacy and improved health, and asset development. There is a theoretical basis for suggesting that there is a relationship between the variables selected for this analysis and income- or consumption-based metrics of poverty. The question motivating this study, however, is how does this relationship hold up when, instead of using income poverty, poverty is measured using a multidimensional metric?/p

Research Topic
Economic and Social Development