addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … in each country, education contributes the most (about 30%) to multidimensional poverty. …In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …

second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept … and the use of monetary income as a single measure of welfare can be misleading. The concept of equality of living … normative conclusions about the direction of welfare measures to reduce such factors of economic vulnerability within families …

relatively high income region of Italy. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a … single measure of welfare can be misleading. The concept of equality of living standards is a more correct definition, but it … is far more elusive. Using a national poverty line as targeting for social policies might introduce inequality between …

. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept and the use of monetary income as a single measure of well-being can be … to consider the concept of vulnerability instead of that of poverty in order to include multi-dimensional factors of well …The aim of this paper is the definition and measurement of the concept of poverty of families in nine regions of Italy …

emphasis on education, training, and other human development efforts in its poverty reduction strategy since return to …This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices …

avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …