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capability measure of poverty  

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  • THE CAPABILITY MEASURE of poverty (CMP) is a response to the growing recognition that income poverty is only a part of what constitutes conditions of poverty. The impetus for developing capability measures of poverty comes from the 1996 Human Development Report (HDR), produced by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Capability Measure of Poverty]

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