Income poverty is commonly encountered in developing and developed countries alike, but in the latter case the incidence rate is lower. Beyond income, the health dimension is recalling the attention of a wide number of studies about poverty. A disjoint analysis of the two components could potentially lead to misleading results, especially in developed countries (Madden, 2008). In this framework Sen’s Capability Approach emerged as the leading alternative to standard economic analysis of poverty and human development generally, arguing that poverty is not just low level of consumption or income, but it is a broader concept related to the inability of reaching an acceptable standard in several dimensions, e.g. health. This paper presents poverty according to the multidimensional approach. The correlation between these two dimensions of poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve (ROC). We are interested in comparing the dynamic of multidimensional poverty across European countries for elderly people, therefore we use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for the years 2004-2006.

Multidimensional poverty across Europe

SALMASI, Luca
2011-01-01

Abstract

Income poverty is commonly encountered in developing and developed countries alike, but in the latter case the incidence rate is lower. Beyond income, the health dimension is recalling the attention of a wide number of studies about poverty. A disjoint analysis of the two components could potentially lead to misleading results, especially in developed countries (Madden, 2008). In this framework Sen’s Capability Approach emerged as the leading alternative to standard economic analysis of poverty and human development generally, arguing that poverty is not just low level of consumption or income, but it is a broader concept related to the inability of reaching an acceptable standard in several dimensions, e.g. health. This paper presents poverty according to the multidimensional approach. The correlation between these two dimensions of poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve (ROC). We are interested in comparing the dynamic of multidimensional poverty across European countries for elderly people, therefore we use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for the years 2004-2006.
2011
Multidimensional poverty; poverty; income distribution
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