The challenges associated with poverty measurement within an axiomatic framework, especially with cardinal variables … meaningfully assess poverty with ordinal variables, capturing the depth of deprivations. In this paper, we first propose a class of … additively decomposable ordinal poverty measures and provide an axiomatic characterisation using a set of basic foundational …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty … program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … program as a pathway to poverty reduction has been studied much less. Using two waves of longitudinal data on over 2000 … participants and raised the potential for income growth that contributed to poverty reduction. …

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …