• Identification of poverty status through a dual cutoff:
• First, cutoff levels within each dimension (analogous to
falling below a poverty line for example $1.25 per day
for income poverty);
• Second, cutoff in the number of dimensions in which a
person must be deprived (below a line) to be deemed
multidimensionally poor.
• MPI focuses on deprivations in health, education, and
standard of living; and each receives equal (that is
one-third of the overall total) weight.