of poverty but fairly decent living conditions. By contrast, most of Nairobi's slum residents have jobs and comparatively … levels are high, but living conditions are not as bad as in Nairobi. These findings suggest that reduction in income poverty … conditions. Since not all slum residents are poor, living conditions also vary within slums depending on poverty status. Compared …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an …

) 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 …