This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

This paper proposes a framework for modelling projections of multidimensional poverty. We use recently published data … of changes over time in multidimensional poverty for 75 countries which is based on time-consistent indicators. We … consider and evaluate different approaches to model the trajectories of countries in poverty reduction. Our preferred model …