Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis
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The world has continued to witness prosperity in terms of poverty reduction and well-being improvement, but one cannot overstate the importance of examining whether the improvement is evenly shared or is being inclusive to all. In this paper, we propose a general quantile-based approach based on absolute changes that allow assessing and robustly examining inclusiveness of well-being for non-monetary indicators that are bounded in nature and can have both attainment and shortfall representations. Our empirical analysis of inclusiveness uses a multidimensional measure of well-being that is closely linked to the flagship global multidimensional poverty index and examine inclusiveness of well-being changes for 80 developing countries covering six different geographic regions. We observe robust improvements in well-being for most countries in our study, but only around three-fifth of all countries show robust inclusiveness. Further geographical analyses show that the same figure is less than one-third for the sub-Saharan African region. Our proposed framework could play an important role in jointly meeting the SDG targets of reducing inequality within countries and reducing poverty in multiple dimensions.
Date:
21 November 2022, 16:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue:
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details:
Meeting Room A
Speaker:
Dr Suman Seth (University of Leeds)
Organising department:
Oxford Department of International Development
Organisers:
Kelly-Ann Fonderson (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative),
Pedro Conceição (UNDP HDRO),
Professor James Foster (Georges Washington University),
Professor Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
kelly-ann.fonderson@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
OPHI Seminar Series
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Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Kelly-Ann Fonderson
