. This paper uses the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to derive the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and … Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (CSPI) for South Africa, and then estimate the impact that social assistance grants have on … both of these composite indices of poverty measurement. The results show that increases in the income from a cash grant …

close replica of the international MPI (multidimensional poverty index). …In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension … poverty decomposition based only on the unique properties of each identification function; and metrics of dimensional power …

multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness … Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (GCSPI). …The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median …