", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because … insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …

those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in … Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to carry out means testing income-support programs, and countries in …-poor quality is constrained by the power of observable characteristics to infer income levels. However, since taxation is necessary …

PPP per day (similar to the average national poverty line of upper middle-income countries) and adjust survey weights to … more efficient income protection systems that address both structural and transient poverty. … that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size …