nevertheless the use of indices as a form of multidimensional poverty measurement is heavily debated because aggregating various dimensions of poverty into one index involves a risk of losing valuable information on the multidimensionality of poverty as bourguignon and chakravarty have pointed out aggregating various attributes into a single index essentially implies reducing multidimensional poverty into a onedimensional concept they underline that a multidimensional approach to poverty ought to define poverty as a shortfall from a threshold on each dimension of an individuals wellbeing to focus on the multidimensionality of poverty they suggest establishing a poverty line for each dimension and to consider that a person is poor if heshe falls below at least one of these various lines bourguignon chakravarty