The aim of this paper is to draw attention to ‘missing dimensions' of poverty data – dimensions that are of value to … income, longevity, and education, many have argued that people's values, and consequently multidimensional poverty, extends … individual or household-level data on multiple dimensions of poverty. A critical barrier for international analyses of …

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 …

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 …