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 …

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 …

the south west region of Guatemala, which used mobile phone data to predict observed poverty rates. Its findings indicate … that CDR-based research methods have the potential to replicate the poverty estimates obtained from traditional forms of … predicting urban and total poverty in Guatemala more accurately than rural poverty. Moreover, although the poverty estimates …