Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213099 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/210
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster index with alternative poverty indices that are sensitive to inequality. Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health Surveys for different years for Malawi (2004, 2010, and 2015), for Mozambique (2003 and 2011), Tanzania (2005, 2010, and 2015) and for Zimbabwe (2005, 2010, and 2015). Our findings show that one obtains insightful information when looking at the breadth and inequality components of multidimensional poverty.
Subjects: 
counting approach
multidimensional poverty measurement
Malawi
Mozambique
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
JEL: 
I32
D63
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-436-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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