Survey data. Using both the standard Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty index and the first-order dominance (FOD) method …Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit … national household expenditure survey is from 2014/15, just before these crises unfolded, there is need for a poverty …

close replica of the international MPI (multidimensional poverty index). …In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension … poverty decomposition based only on the unique properties of each identification function; and metrics of dimensional power …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

important facet whose measurement should be done well. Measurement is complex due to a multitude of methodological choices …

2010 Census of Population and Housing data has generated information on the poverty status of provinces and districts in … the districts according to their poverty status. It is expected that this paper will contribute to fine-tuning geographic … poverty targeting efforts in Zambia. The rationale is that with the availability of such analysis, it will be possible to make …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … detailed perspective on the evolution of rural poverty. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of FOD results to indicator …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …