The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …

distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the sensitivity of … for low and middle-income countries is discussed. The paper argues that there is a split of distribution poverty between … billion" living in stable MICs. The analysis is based on 83 countries, and uses the 2011 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …

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 …