Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple …-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty and well-being. Stochastic dominance approaches are used to … contrast uni-dimensional and multidimensional poverty over health and assets. The results show that children with the lowest …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …

as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such …

of poverty in Quebec and in Canada. This contribution is decomposed into a product of the effects of total size and … the components of income are ranked can influence considerably the share of total poverty alleviation allocated to each … component. A sharing rule is thus used to allocate to each income component a part of total poverty alleviation that is …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …

specifically on the poverty impacts of growth. Considering a cross-sectional perspective for poverty measurement, early …’s treatment of mobility encompasses both the gain of "mobility as equalizer" and the variability cost of poverty transiency …