This paper reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to monetary poverty measurement. The … arguments for combining both approaches into a single "overall” monetary poverty measure are introduced. The most salient … proposals of hybrid poverty lines are presented. Then, the reasons why specific poverty indices may be required when a hybrid …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

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 … between 2001 and 2007. Multiple Correspondence Analysis provides two major advantages for the measurement of multidimensional …

can be used as distribution sensitive poverty measures and as inequality measures, with the same simple intuitive units …

accurate calculation of a cost-of-basic-needs poverty line. The standard approach uses the per-calorie cost of the food …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban … Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line (covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness checks show that …