This study provides empirical evidence on recent trends in poverty among working families based on the headcount rate … and a broader alternative that incorporates the headcount rate, the depth of poverty, and income inequality among the poor … working poverty for the sample period, while the alternative index showed no statistically significant change. The same result …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …