This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the sensitivity of … for low and middle-income countries is discussed. The paper argues that there is a split of distribution poverty between … billion" living in stable MICs. The analysis is based on 83 countries, and uses the 2011 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …

"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …