This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

Poverty in Sri Lanka is still largely a rural phenomenon. Between 1986 and 1991, national poverty rates declined … modestly, almost entirely because of a decline in rural poverty. During the same period, urban poverty increased. Poorer … significantly higher unemployment.Datt and Gunewardena characterize poverty in Sri Lanka, using data from two recent household …