This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for … that other factors need to be considered when quantifying the extent of poverty and informing policy making for fighting … poverty. However, the author argues that there are two poorly understood issues in assessing these indices. First, does one …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

. First, there is a close link between natural disasters and poverty. On average, the estimates suggest that almost half a … million Filipinos per year face transient consumption poverty due to natural disasters. Nationally, the bottom income quintile … areas. A focus on poverty or wellbeing rebalances the analysis and generates a different set of regional priorities. Finally …

The proportion of Ugandan households living in poverty reduced by more than half between 1993 and 2013. Using household … survey data, this paper analyzes nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda for levels and trends, to explore whether the … observed reduction in monetary-based poverty are reflected in the nonmonetary indicators of poverty. The results show that …

There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …

evidence on changes in overlapping deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional poverty. It assesses the … overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and … urban areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia?s multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been …

indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …

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 …