Abstract:Despite global efforts in alleviating poverty, many people are still living in poverty. Different methods were employed to estimate poverty with many researchers moving from monetary to multidimensional poverty modeling approach. In Namibia, very few studies have been conducted to estimate poverty in a multidimensional sense. The 2015/2016 Namibia household income and expenditure survey dataset was employed to develop multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs) using beta distribution. We showed that the MPI is eq… Show more
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