The measurement of multidimensional poverty has been advocated by most welfare scholars and is experiencing a growth in … one of the least explored approaches -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis -- to assess multidimensional poverty in Morocco … poverty: it generates a matrix of "weights" based on the variance-covariance matrix of all welfare dimensions selected and …

The paper shows how Labor Force Surveys can be used effectively to estimate poverty rates using Household Expenditure … 2007), the paper estimates quarterly poverty rates for the period 2001-2010 by imputing household expenditures into the … Labor Force Surveys. The results are encouraging. The methodology is able to accurately reproduce official poverty …