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 …

Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty … USAID poverty assessment tool and base data are used for demonstration of these methods; however, the methods applied in … this paper should be considered for PMT and other poverty-targeting tool development more broadly …

The performance of the Simple Poverty Scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression …-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household expenditure (or income) data from … Poverty Scorecard is as good as any of the regression-based estimators. The findings change, however, when the regression …

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 …

Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among …

individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

fund to promote the industrialization of agricultural products, in particular -- on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea …