believe that any single index can ever be a sufficient statistic for poverty assessments? Second, when aggregation is called … multidimensional index. When weights are needed, they shouldn' t be set solely by an analyst measuring poverty. Rather, they should be …There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for …

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 …

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 …

national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …According to the official statistics published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, the country … registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly …

. 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 … urban areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia?s multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been … overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and …