-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …

The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …

no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …

prices on Uganda. Previous impact analysis studies suggested that the food price shock increased poverty in Uganda as there … are more net food buyer than net food seller households. We show that the agriculture commodity price shocks were poverty …-reducing, but the simultaneous increases in energy and fertiliser prices were poverty-increasing. Overall, poverty decreased in …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using … increasing standards, resulting in important income gains and poverty reduction. Our estimates indicate that poverty is 14 …

Poverty as a multi-dimensional phenomenon is determined by a wide range of factors one of which is the non-equity in … distribution and scarcity of assets in development opportunities. The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard … challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of …

Studies in the area of health economics and public health have shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) and poverty … that poor health behaviours cluster in low SES respectively poverty groups. However, relatively little attention has been … are used to analyse the relationship between two multidimensional measurements to describe a) poverty respectively b) a …