) estimates obtained at the firm level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998, and finds that more productive sectors receive more …

multidimensional poverty in Colombia, finding that the dimensions associated with education and health are the main drivers behind the …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 …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels … constructed from multiple rounds of Colombia's Integrated Household Survey (in Spanish Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares). The …

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 …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

by investigating the link between internal displacement and multidimensional poverty, using one of the most comprehensive … household surveys for poverty analysis in Iraq. The results show crucial differences between internally displaced and non …-displaced households with respect to multidimensional poverty. Furthermore, instrumental variable regression analysis suggests that the …

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 …

Poverty estimates usually lag behind two years, which makes it difficult to provide real-time poverty analysis to … commonly used poverty nowcasting methods and ranks their performance by comparing country-specific and regional poverty … nowcasts with actual poverty estimates for 2003?14 period. The validation results show that the two bottom-up approaches, which …

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 … poverty in the Philippines to these choices by presenting estimates for three alternative weighting schemes and three measures …