This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 … components of household livelihoods to observed changes in poverty. The results show that poverty decline is associated with a … contributed but are not the primary drivers of poverty ecline over this period. The pattern of changes is consistent with …

Multidimensional measures of poverty have become standard as complementary indicators of poverty in many countries …. Multidimensional poverty calculations typically comprise three indices: the multidimensional headcount, the average deprivation share … counterfactual simulations-to break up the changes of the multidimensional poverty headcount into the variation attributed to each of …

to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …

This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues … that pervasive in-work poverty is the main challenge facing labor policy. Poverty is primarily due to low earning capacity … of in-work poverty - low education of the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is …

The Philippines is home to around twenty five million of the 2.3 billion people worldwide who lack access to a basic … 2005, to undertake a three-part study that would assess the reasons why low income urban households in the Philippines … this study are to provide context for the sanitation conditions of low-income communities in the Philippines and to …

addressing poverty, the Philippines is hindered by the limited expansion of its middle class. In the East Asia region over 2002 …-paying job opportunities that trap the poor in poverty, generation after generation. Children from poor households start life at … disasters buffet the poor, whose limited means to cope and disproportionate suffering push them deeper into poverty. Poverty is …

redound to poverty reduction in the island-region. Launched in 2017, the World Bank's Mindanao Jobs Report presented a …

poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …Multidimensional poverty comparisons can be sensitive to the choice of welfare indicators, the weights assigned to the … indicators, as well as the aggregate poverty measure used. This paper examines the robustness of trends in multidimensional …

distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest of the world is poverty and …This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price … inequality reducing, whereas full domestic liberalization increases national poverty and inequality. Poverty declines while …