This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … can reflect the reduction in deprivation attributable to the improved affordability and expanded coverage of government … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty … Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its estimate and understanding its sources. Our contribution honours Gangopadhyay … poverty incidence. We highlight how far it can take us, and how it still leaves us far short of understanding much of what …

Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment … deprivation areas, suggesting a "social norm" effect. Our random effects (household) ordered probit modelling approach finds that …

almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified status is associated with greater deprivation in access to basic … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in … suggest that there is credible evidence for poverty to have declined significantly since the 1990s but at a lesser speed than … growth in per capita GDP. More importantly, global poverty tends to respond much more strongly to shifts in sector of …

A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …