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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Post reform India has generated high economic growth, yet progress in income poverty and many other key development … 2015-16 in reducing multidimensional poverty captured by the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We employ a … associated with an annual reduction in MPI of 1.34 percent. The association of the national growth to state poverty reduction …

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 …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the sensitivity of … for low and middle-income countries is discussed. The paper argues that there is a split of distribution poverty between … billion" living in stable MICs. The analysis is based on 83 countries, and uses the 2011 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …

measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …, hence this paper explores the improvement in other social deprivations. An analysis of poverty from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006 using National Family and Health Surveys. We find a strong reduction in …