The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all … individual-based multidimensional poverty mea- sure in order to estimate the three Is of multidimensional poverty (incidence …