decomposability. Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI) has been calculated. Value of MEP headcount for rural Pakistan is 71 … Pakistan are most deprived in cooking fuel dimension (55 percent) while deprivation is the least in dimension of home …This study uses Alkire and Foster’s (2007) methodology to measure Multidimensional Energy Poverty in Pakistan using …

total expenditure. The present study investigates the distributional effects of rising food prices in Pakistan. For this … analyze the distributional effects for rural and urban segments of Pakistan. As there are considerable differences in the … is evident that cereals, pulses and dairy products are the major source of welfare in rural–urban poors in Pakistan. …

empirical illustration documenting changes in sanitation deprivation in Bangladesh showcases the measures' ability to identify … instances in which overall sanitation deprivation improved while leaving the poorest behind …

This paper compares multidimensional deprivation in India and China during the 1990s and beyond. The analysis is based … on unit record data. The paper disaggregates the overall deprivation by categories, and compares the deprivation … improvement in living standards in either country. Deprivation is still unacceptably high in some categories. While rural …

including decomposability. The identification method is particularly well suited for use with ordinal data, as is the first of …