• To measure poverty through the Human Poverty Index in a context of deprivation in multiple dimensions, focusing on developing countries. To introduce the properties of HPI
• functionings
• secondary data
• macro
• United Nations
• Developing countries
• Survival (expected incidence of mortality by age 40), education and knowledge (illiteracy) and economic deprivation (undernourishment, access to health care and safe water).
• Generalized weighted mean with alpha=3