Designing Multidimensional Poverty Index for Slums: Concept Methodology and Interpretation

Urban poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon and one indicator, such as income, is not capable to measure multiple aspects that contribute to poverty. Unlike monatary approach to measure poverty, various scholars have been developed various types of index based on human development approach. However, slums and poverty are related and mutually reinforcing, but the relationship is not always straightforward. Slum dwellers are not a homogenous population. This paper is an attempt to design and develop a multidimensional poverty index for slums based on lines of versatile methodology of global MPI which might be appropriate in local contexts.