The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … Consumption and Income Project (GCIP). They describe the construction of the consumption and income datasets and the evolution of … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority … of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …