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Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement in Sierra Leone and Lao PDR
This research brief compares the properties of individual- and household-based multidimensional child poverty approaches. Specifically it contrasts UNICEF’s Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) with the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. MODA focuses on children and is rooted in the child rights approach while MPI has been developed for households and follows Sen’s (1985) capabilities approach. We demonstrate their similarities and differences using two recent Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys: Sierra Leone and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR). The analysis suggests that MODA tends to produce higher multidimensional child poverty headcount rates than MPI both because of the differences in the survey items used to construct the indicators of deprivation and because of how the indicators are aggregated and weighted.