Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent … work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and … Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement …

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 …

We recently introduced a general method for measuring poverty when there are multiple dimensions [1,2] and provided a …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification …

In addressing operational challenges such as poverty or economic development, many researchers and practitioners wish …

significantly since 2003. Nevertheless, our findings show that the general relative poverty risk for older people in Germany has … remained roughly constant over the last ten years-although the poverty rate of the population as a whole has been increasing …. We found that one-fifth of all persons living near the poverty line possess substantial assets that they can fall back on …

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that the risk of poverty did not rise further after a long period of upward movement. Income … mobility since German reunification. For example, the odds of exiting the risk of poverty within a period of four years has …