Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

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 …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all … individual-based multidimensional poverty mea- sure in order to estimate the three Is of multidimensional poverty (incidence …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …

In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty … method and regression analysis to test the stability of multidimensional poverty measures and probe the often-observed mis …-match between multidimensional measures and income measures. We find as expected that China’s multidimensional poverty is …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …