This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units identified by traditional head count ratio, fuzzy unidimensional and fuzzy multidimensional indices are compared by means of a rank correlation analysis. The robustness of the...

This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social indicators over the last one and a half decades. Several key social and human development indicators have been considered which provides an analysis of the trends at both the national as...