The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Poverty in Djibouti

Mendiratta, Vibhuti ; Duplantier, Anne

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: POVERTY MEASUREMENT;    ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY;    HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS;    EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT;    SCHOOL ENROLLMENT;   

RP-ID  :  151255

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This note illustrates themultidimensional nature of poverty in Djibouti. The authorsuse the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which capturesseveral welfare dimensions - monetary poverty, education,and access to basic infrastructure - to compare the extentto which different populations in Djibouti are deprived:rural versus urban, households where the head is educatedversus not, households where the head is employed versusnot, among other characteristics. Overall, about 28 percentof the population is multidimensionally poor and widedisparities exist across geographic locations. Moreover,people living in a household headed by a person who iseducated and employed in the formal private sector are leastlikely to be multidimensionally poor.