A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

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 …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

This study investigates the implication of the social dimension of inclusive growth on poverty reduction in Economic … comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

In this paper we develop a multidimensional poverty measure that attempts to capture absolute poverty in the … the resource space. To generate a relative measure, this measure adapts the poverty cut-off in resource-related indicators … in a multidimensional poverty measure to prevailing standards in a region. As illustration, this poverty measure utilizes …

We compare the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian … magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different ethnicities in those … countries. Then, we use regression-based counterfactual analysis for explaining these ethnic differentials in poverty. We …