The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches-Multiple Correspondence Analysis-to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … between 2001 and 2007. Multiple Correspondence Analysis provides two major advantages for the measurement of multidimensional …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity-one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

The paper focuses on durable goods and their role in the measurement of living standards. The paper reviews the … cost approach. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in the context of poverty and inequality analysis and it is …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …