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CPS2139 Hicham El Marizgui et al.

Multidimensional Poverty among women in
Morocco - Overview and analysis of the
dynamics between 2004 and 2014

Hicham El Marizgui, Khalid Soudi
Observatory of Population’s Living Conditions; High Commission of Planning of Morocco

Abstract
OPHI's approach for the measurement and the analysis of multidimensional
poverty offers the advantage of breaking down this form of social deprivation.
Indeed, since the multidimensional poverty index MPI can be decomposed
into social groups and dimensions, it allows us to highlight the main
determinants of multidimensional poverty. Thus, this approach implemented
into women using exhaustively the 2004 and 2014 censuses data has shown
that more than two million women are in a situation of multidimensional
poverty, representing 18.1% of women population in Morocco compared to
40,4% of women who were concerned in 2004. Although declining at national,
regional and provincial level, this form of poverty remains in the same
configuration. Education is still the main scourge depriving women from
attaining a situation of well-being, since years of schooling and illiteracy
indicators explain respectively 34,1% and 31,5% of multidimensional poverty
of women. In addition, the analysis by poverty typology found that 2% of
women combine both monetary and multidimensional forms of poverty; these
constitute the hard core of poverty.

Keywords
Poverty; Multidimensional; Monetary; OPHI; Women

1. Introduction
From a human development perspective, women's well-being is a
prerequisite for sustainable development and a key objective of human
progress. It implies the fight against female poverty, equal opportunities and
empowerment. If women represent half of humanity, then the construction of
a fairer world will necessarily require their social, political and economic
integration and not their exclusion. From this perspective, exclusion and
poverty are central concerns that must be addressed if the sustainability
aspect of any development project is to be ensured.
The 1990s was a significant turnaround in the warning and fight against
poverty. In 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, it was agreed that environmental protection
involves reducing the masses of the poor who find their only resources in
nature. In 1994, the Cairo conference considered poverty as a major obstacle
to solving population problems. At the Fourth United Nations Conference on

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