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The topic of the multidimensionality of poverty is currently at the heart of many theoretical, empirical and institutional debates in the European Union (Atkinson, Cantillon, Marlier, Nolan, 2002). Despite this increasing interest, there seems to be no consensus on how to define and measure multidimensional poverty. Key aspects of this debate are the questions of the dimensionality of the poverty concept and the nature of the relationship between the items measuring each dimension. In this chapter we apply the Rasch model in order to illustrate its contribution to analysing these questions.
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Fusco, A., Dickes, P. (2008). The Rasch Model and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. In: Kakwani, N., Silber, J. (eds) Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582354_3
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