Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

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 …

Foster (2011) poverty measures for both micro and macro levels of analyses. At the micro level, we present a model where the … focal variable is a person's poverty status. At the macro level we present a model where the focal variable is an overall … poverty measure like the poverty headcount ratio or the adjusted headcount ratio. The chapter presents these regression models …

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 …

at a new measure of vulnerability to poverty. We highlight the importance of current standard of living to better capture … standard expected poverty measures that is commonly found in the literature. We also axiomatically characterize the new class …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification …

After a measurement methodology has been chosen, the design of poverty measures — whether unidimensional or … identification and analysis, dimensions, indicators, deprivation cutoffs, weights, and poverty line. The normative contribution is … describes each of these normative choices in the context of multidimensional poverty measurement design. It clarifies the …

present a case study using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the sixth section. The final section presents …