, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

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 …

land inequality is due to flows of land between households being impeded by social divisions? To answer this question, a … not hinder land and labor transfers in a way that contributes to aggregate factor inequality. Labor transfers do not …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

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 …

intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a …

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 …