addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … in each country, education contributes the most (about 30%) to multidimensional poverty. …In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

Welfare reform has increased labor force participation among welfare parents. But is work leading to self …-sufficiency or another cycle of defeat for these workers? The answer is that most welfare workers remain trapped in the cage of … poverty.The basic premise of the work-first model that continuing participation in the labor force will lead to economic self …

poverty using the poverty indices and constructed poverty lines; and development of a Composite Indicator of Multidimensional … is therefore to compute a composite indicator of multidimensional poverty and regional poverty lines to identify the …The identification of the poor and the definition of poverty is rather complex since poverty dimensions are …