Based on Amartya Sen's groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings, static poverty measures have long used non …-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics, including chronic poverty, have in general conceptualized poverty only in … limitations of analysing chronic poverty from a non-income perspective. Second, it proposes methods to empirically measure chronic …

We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular … characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues … vulnerability, defined as the threat of poverty over time, that incorporates risk. An application to data from Ethiopia shows that …