This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …

For meaningful policy analysis, it is important not only to look at overall poverty, and compare countries or regions … the dynamics of poverty. This extends the methodological toolkit presented in Chapter 5. First we present a new measure of … methodological extensions that are required for inter-temporal analysis of poverty using repeated cross-sectional data, and for the …

The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …

This chapter introduces empirical issues that are distinctive to counting-based multidimensional poverty methodologies … constructing the indicators to include in a multidimensional poverty measure. The third section presents some basic descriptive …

After a measurement methodology has been chosen, the design of poverty measures — whether unidimensional or … identification and analysis, dimensions, indicators, deprivation cutoffs, weights, and poverty line. The normative contribution is … describes each of these normative choices in the context of multidimensional poverty measurement design. It clarifies the …

present a case study using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the sixth section. The final section presents …

The measurement of poverty involves identification: the fundamental step of deciding who is to be considered poor. A … ‘counting approach' is one way to identify the poor in multidimensional poverty measurement, which entails the intuitive … reviews applications of the counting methods in the history of poverty measurement. We focus on empirical studies since the …

This chapter presents a constructive survey of the major existing methods for measuring multidimensional poverty. Many …

-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well …-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures of income poverty as many methods presented in OPHI Working Paper 84 (Chapter 3 – Overview of … Methods for Multidimensional Poverty Assessment) as well as the measure presented in OPHI Working Papers 86-90 (Chapters 5 …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …