For meaningful policy analysis, it is important not only to look at overall poverty, and compare countries or regions … the dynamics of poverty. This extends the methodological toolkit presented in Chapter 5. First we present a new measure of … methodological extensions that are required for inter-temporal analysis of poverty using repeated cross-sectional data, and for the …

More data on non-income dimensions of poverty are available than at any previous time in history. Alongside this … new possibilities to measure multidimensional poverty at the local, national and international level. Yet the fact that … when, how and why certain multidimensional poverty measures add value, sketches the limits of the contribution, and …

In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty … method and regression analysis to test the stability of multidimensional poverty measures and probe the often-observed mis …-match between multidimensional measures and income measures. We find as expected that China’s multidimensional poverty is …