On-line Course on Advanced Poverty Analysis

Quiz for Module 2

1. Multidimensional Poverty refers to:
A / The inability to buy many commodities, due to insufficient income
B / The lack of a specific capacity, such as education or shelter
C / Shortfalls in a substantial number of capabilities such as education or assets
D / All of the above
2. The dashboard approach sets out many dimensions of poverty. In the case of Ghana since 1990, we see all of the following except:
A / Girls are still less likely than boys to get a primary education.
B / The poverty rate nearly halved between 1992 and 2006.
C / Under-five mortality rates have fallen sharply since 1990.
D / The proportion of the population without an improved source of drinking water has more than halved since 1990.
3. The Human Development Index is computed as:
A / the geometric mean of a health outcomes index, an education index, and an income index.
B / the arithmetic mean of a health outcomes index, an education index, and an income index.
C / the geometric mean of a life expectancy index, an education index, and an income index.
D / the arithmetic mean of a life expectancy index, an education index, and an income index.
4. The Human Development Index has been computed since 1990, and provides a comparable series over time.
True / False / Uncertain
5. Which of the following is not a step in the construction of the Multidimensional Poverty Index?
A / Select poverty lines for each dimension under consideration.
B / Measure the size of the poverty gap for each dimension.
C / Select a weight for each dimension.
D / Measure the MPI as H × A, where H is the percentage of people who are poor, and A is the average proportion of deprivations per poor person.
6. A society has four individuals (1 through 4), and four dimensions of poverty (A through D). The table shows the values on each dimension for each individual, as well as the poverty lines (“cutoffs”).

A household is considered to be poor if it falls below the cutoff on at least three dimensions. Based on this information:
A / The MPI is 0.50.
B / The MPI is 0.875.
C / The MPI is 0.4375.
D / The MPI is 0.75.
7. Which of the following does the UNDP not include in its implementation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index?
A / Child mortality.
B / Whether the household lives in a house with a dirt floor.
C / Per capita income.
D / Whether children of school age are attending primary or junior-high school.
8. Which of the following is not generally true?
A / The MPI is correlated with conventional monetary measures of poverty.
B / An MPI for Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, based on the urban poverty survey of 2009, shows that Ho Chi Minh City is poorer than Hanoi.
C / The MPI is based on data from surveys that usually do not measure income or expenditures in detail.
D / The MPI is designed to weight the different dimensions of poverty equally.
9. Country A could have a higher proportion of people who are deprived of electricity than country B, and a higher proportion of people who are malnourished than country B, but might yet have a lower index of multidimensional poverty than country B.
True / False / Uncertain