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Operationalising the Capability Approach: A German Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index

Rippin, Nicole - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2012

The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median net equivalence income. The severe methodological weaknesses of this rate seem to be the main source for the uncertainty that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the...

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Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement

Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 476-487

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 … joint restrictions on identification and the measures, and the methodology satisfies a range of desirable properties …

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Child Poverty Measurement: the Case of Afghanistan

Biggeri, Mario; Trani, Jean-Francois; Mauro, Vincenzo - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2011

This paper examines child poverty from a multidimensional perspective. The main goal is to apply a general methodology in order to measure child poverty as a deprivation of capabilities and achieved functionings. In the capability perspective, child poverty is intended as the lack of freedom to...

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Using Ordinal Variables to Measure Multidimensional Poverty in Two South Mediterranean Countries

Bérenger, Valérie - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2014

The main goal of this paper is to highlight the empirical contribution of methodological refinements to "counting approach" poverty measures, and to use ordinal variables as a means of understanding multidimensional poverty in two South Mediterranean countries, namely Egypt and Jordan. The paper...

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Beyond the Headcount: Examining the Dynamics and Patterns of Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia.

Sumarto, Sudarno; de Silva, Indunil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this study was twofold. First, despite the vast amount of empirical studies on income poverty in Indonesia, very few studies have examined multidimensional household welfare deprivations. We attempted to fill this gap by utilizing for the first time the annually conducted National...

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Assessing individuals' deprivation in a multidimensional framework

Permanyer, Iñaki - In: Journal of Development Economics 109 (2014) C, pp. 1-16

In the context of multidimensional poverty measurement, it seems plausible to assume that when individuals are deprived in some dimensions and non-deprived in the remaining ones, the latter can be allowed to play a non-trivial role in the assessment of those individuals' poverty levels. Yet,...

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Hasse Diagrams, Poset Theory and Fuzzy Poverty Measures

Fattore, Marco - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 116 (2008) 1, pp. 63-75

It is generally agreed that poverty cannot be faithfully represented by a single monetary measure. Poverty involves many different aspects of life, and people can be poor in different ways, to different degrees and from several points of view. For this reason, fuzzy multidimensional indicators...

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Children's Resources in Collective Households: Identification, Estimation and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi

Lewbel, Arthur; Dunbar, Geoffrey; Pendakur, Krishna - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2010

The share of household resources devoted to children is hard to identify, because consumption is measured at the household level, and goods can be shared. Using semiparametric restrictions on individual preferences within a collective model, we identify how total household resources are divided...

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Subjective poverty lines and quality life potential (QLP)in Spain. An application from the EPF 1990-91

Goerlich Gisbert, Francisco José; Pinilla Pallejà, Rafael - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 5, pp. 159-170

The Quality Life Potential (QLP)is a new well-being measure introduced in Pinilla and Goerlich (2004).The QLP combines income above social poverty line with life expectancy at any age according to a quality life function.If we want to calculate the QLP,we need to choose a poverty line...

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Mountains on the move: recent trends in national and EU-wide income dynamics in old and new EU Member States

Goedemé, Tim; Collado, Diego; Meeusen, Leen - Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck, … - 2014

In European poverty research, poverty is usually measured with a poverty line defined as a percentage of the national median income. However, for grasping trends in social cohesion in the European Union (EU), and identifying options and pitfalls for social policy initiatives at the EU level,...

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