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A new documentation website for mpitb, the Stata toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices, is now online — with a getting-started guide, comprehensive help files, a workflow manual, and practical how-tos.

The School of Economics at the University of Barcelona offers a annual summer school with varying topics. The 2024 edition of this summer school will be on “The Economics of Poverty and Inequality: Global Challenges in the 21st Century” and takes place during the first week of July 2024. Applications will be open until 30th May.

The MPI toolbox mpitb is now available on the SSC archive. This toolbox facilitates the estimation and analysis of multidimensional poverty indices in Stata. The toolbox comes with comfortable estimation and storing routines, a streamlined workflow, several convenience functions and some low-level tools for programmers.

In this blog entry I explain a recently developed approach to use simulations for multidimensional poverty when even contemporary micro-data are unavailable. In our application we use the global Multidimensional Poverty Index but this approach is applicable and potentially useful for other development indicators as well.

In this blog you can expect to read about issues related to my research projects and interests, sometimes more technical, sometimes less so.