Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … one dimension: income. Upcoming multidimensional poverty measures have challenged this established assumption, claiming … that the correlation between the various dimensions of poverty is in fact not strong enough for income to serve as a proxy …

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …