It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

This paper is concerned with concepts - poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization - that are typically treated … is on "well-off" countries where poverty is a minority, rather than a majority, phenomenon. At the other end of the scale … measurement of "affluence" can proceed along similar lines to the measurement of poverty. The threshold may be set, relatively, as …

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 …