Many authors have insisted on the necessity of defining poverty as a multi-dimensional concept rather than relying on … deprivation into the practical definition and measurement of poverty. Existing attempts along that direction consist of … aggregagting various attributes into a single index through some arbitrary function and defining a poverty line and associated …

Relatively little research has been conducted until now on the multidimensional aspect of poverty measurement, that is … poverty measures defined on various income and non-income attributes and their gaps with respect to pre-specified subsistence … levels. The present paper investigates the properties of a family of poverty measures which generalizes the well-known single …

The Grameen Bank's success in Bangladesh has made microcredit the hot new idea for reducing poverty. This paper uses …-recipients. Poverty is measured by levels of consumption. Vulnerablitiy is measured as fluctuations in consumption (associated with … is substantial leakage to the landed. Landlessness is not significangly associated with either poverty or vulnerablitiy …

? What is the relation between informality and poverty? Theoretically, both are possible, and in this sense, the informal … findings to poverty. We investigate data to see whether observable heterogeneities in terms of income exist not only between …

construct a detailed poverty map of the West Bank and Gaza, by estimating the incidence of poverty in 132 distinct localities … contained in the Palestinian Census from 1997. Our results suggest that the incidence of poverty indeed differs greatly across … localities. This indicates that it may be efficient to base targeting of the poor on the geography of poverty in the West Bank …

of poverty and income distribution and for question of autonomy. …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …

We examine the sensitivity of poverty comparisons across countries with dissimilar household needs when equivalence … scale parameters are varied. We use a sample of Spanish and British households, using both absolute and relative poverty …

household poverty for an archetype developing country. Unlike other studies, we present the income distribution of each … study, this paper presents the poverty lines as being endogenous. With this specification, the poverty line will change …

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it … means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private … poverty, and human rights. …