Economic Wellbeing Index - Developing an Inclusive Measure of Wellbeing and Poverty among Persons with Disabilities

Economic Wellbeing Index (EWI) builds upon poverty measurement by shifting the unit of measurement to the individual and accounting for the barriers to wellbeing faced by persons with disabilities. Surveying Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of Pakistan and EWI reveals that the measures were less likely to agree when the respondent was a person with disability. The discrepancy suggests that MPI may be susceptible to understating individual poverty faced by persons with disability. We conclude that further research is required to improve the veracity of EWI, and suggest that EWI could also help capture individual poverty faced by other marginalized groups.