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Stage 3 is related to data availability for the estimation 2. A DECADE OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY
of official multidimensional poverty measures. Evidently, MEASUREMENT ON A GLOBAL AND LOCAL LEVEL
having available data for the measurement of deprivation
in the chosen dimensions is a feasibility condition when Latin America is a pioneer region in adopting official
designing an official measurement system. Nevertheless, multidimensional poverty measures. In 2007, Mexico
this does not determine the type of measure to estimate became the first country in the world to adopt a
nor the dimensions to explore, as the generation of multidimensional poverty system; since then, countries
information is not exogenous; in some scenarios, it could form different regions (Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia,
be necessary to generate new statistical information or Bhutan, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,
to complement the already existing information. Philippines, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique,
Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Pakistan, Dominican Republic,
Lastly, stage 4 contrasts the set of normative and Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Vietnam) have adopted official
technical decisions with the statistical information multidimensional poverty indicators (see Graph 2).
available in order to raise questions about the feasibility
of implementing the proposed multidimensional poverty
measurement system.

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