The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa …, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly …-being, poverty, growth or aid effectiveness. However, there has been little empirical analysis that tests these relationships …

incorrectly. Similarly, poverty is a trail which can bring great rewards if borne with patience and prayer, and also cause great … currently in use in the West. It is worth considering the reasons for undertaking the project of measurement and assessing what … needs to be measured, and whether measurement itself is necessary, for achieving these goals? …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …