The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

is positive assortative matching by socio-economic status. A reduction in poverty enables households to engage more in …

"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … labor markets has helped reduce seasonality in income and poverty in regions other than Rangpur in the recent past. Hence … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …