ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2023/TP.1
Country: Global
Publication Type: Information material
Cluster: Gender Justice, Population and Inclusive Development
Focus Area: 2030 Agenda
Initiatives: Addressing multidimensional poverty
SDGs: Agenda 2030, Goal 1: No Poverty
Keywords: Multidimentional poverty index, Poverty, Strategic materials, Policy-making, Covid-19, Resources allocation
Optimized multidimensional poverty reduction subject to aid targeting and tailoring: a model centered on policymakers’ capabilities
February 2023
The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) has been recognized by many thought leaders and policy makers as a useful tool for determining the spread of poverty across the multidimensional space, and proposing specific channels and targets for poverty alleviation. To this date, however, no instruments have been promulgated to guide national planners in how to realistically and efficiently use available resources to reduce multidimensional poverty.
This technical report describes advanced scenarios for a recently developed MPI-optimization module of ESCWA's online MPI Assist Tool (MAT). The emphasis is on policy-relevant interventions, including in-kind and cash transfers, and the appropriate targeting of deprived households, and tailoring of the assistance to households' needs. The introduction of in-kind support tackling public-good deprivations at the level of population subgroups, and cash-like support tackling private-good deprivations in specific households, both subject to a user-controllable degree of inefficiency and moral hazard, is the major contribution of this report.
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The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) has been recognized by many thought leaders and policy makers as a useful tool for determining the spread of poverty across the multidimensional space, and proposing specific channels and targets for poverty alleviation. To this date, however, no instruments have been promulgated to guide national planners in how to realistically and efficiently use available resources to reduce multidimensional poverty.
This technical report describes advanced scenarios for a recently developed MPI-optimization module of ESCWA's online MPI Assist Tool (MAT). The emphasis is on policy-relevant interventions, including in-kind and cash transfers, and the appropriate targeting of deprived households, and tailoring of the assistance to households' needs. The introduction of in-kind support tackling public-good deprivations at the level of population subgroups, and cash-like support tackling private-good deprivations in specific households, both subject to a user-controllable degree of inefficiency and moral hazard, is the major contribution of this report.
