This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand …-economic panel data from Vietnam to calculate environmental income variables and a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI). MPIs have … been developed to understand poverty in more detail and implement more efficient policies to lift people out of poverty. We …

both of these composite indices of poverty measurement. The results show that increases in the income from a cash grant … among low and even middle income countries. It helps mitigate income poverty and inequality, and has been shown to have a …. This paper uses the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to derive the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and …

Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up … achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The disparities across the regions remain wide both in terms of poverty and …

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 …