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4. CONCLUSIONS

This document focuses on the identification of The first group of challenges relate to the lack of elements
possibilities and challenges related to the measurement for consensus around the critical nodes of stages 2, 3 and
of multidimensional poverty in Peru. Specifically, this 4. In general, these challenges relate to methodological
document highlights three enabling elements that may discussions concerning the limitations of already existing
contribute to the creation of an official multidimensional methods used for measuring multidimensional poverty.
poverty measurement system as well as three groups The second group of challenges consist in the need to
of challenges that need to be addressed. identify the most pertinent way to actively, strategically
and transparently involve in the discussion not only
experts, but public and private sectors, as well as
The first enabling factor is the explicit international the civil society. Finally, a third group of challenges,
recognition of the multidimensional nature of poverty, which work alongside the technical ones, relate to
coming from the voices of people living in that condition, the communicational component. This involves the
academics and policymakers. The second factor involves need to generate strategies that clearly communicate
the availability of specific resources that serve as a basis the importance and purpose of the discussion on
for identifying potential consensus around minimum multidimensional poverty, its relation to other existent
well-being standards whose deprivation represents a measures (like monetary poverty or early childhood
multidimensional poverty situation. The SDG agenda development indicators) and its usefulness for public
and resolutions stated in “Visión del Perú al 2050” by policy. In that sense, the communicational challenge
the National Agreement are some examples of this kind should not be understood only as a way to disseminate
of sources. The third factor consists in the availability of the final results, as it also includes the deliberation
high-quality statistical information, already produced process itself. This aspect is key to grant transparency
regularly by the INEI, which enables the exploration of and legitimacy to the normative and technical decisions
operationalization alternatives to identify the existence that emerge as a result of the agenda in relation to the
of deprivation in different dimensions. Although it is measurement of multidimensional poverty in Peru.
always possible to pose the need to improve such data
sources, these have the potential to become adequate
starting points.

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