Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126286 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/016
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by Alkire and colleagues. This makes it possible to assess a vast array of information to find the drivers of change in chronic poverty, and has proved to be a valuable tool in public policy programmes. We present an empirical application of the changes in chronic poverty in Argentina during the period 2004-12 using the Permanent Household Survey.
Subjects: 
chronic poverty
multidimensional poverty
Shapley decomposition
JEL: 
I32
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-901-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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