This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean and changes … education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income inequality …

evolution of the nutrition poverty index over time in India. However, I also observe that the level of stunted growth would be …

In this paper we examine the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven …

The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over …