underlying indicators for the index, the weights assigned to the indicators, as well as the aggregation process. It also reviews …-based indicators, although poverty is multidimensional in nature. Various work on generating a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) has … added in producing a composite index of poverty. Just because poverty is multi-dimensional need not mean that its …

The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates …-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher's "ideal" index and to the consumer surplus approximation …

factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is … demonstrate that a Paasche, Laspeyres or Fisher index number formula provides a measure for all four of the concepts of TFPG … approaches to index formula choice are reviewed. In addition, we briefly cover the Divisia index number approach and growth …

Here, we consider the problem of aggregation of efficiency and productivity indices. We will summarize some of the … existing results and will derive new results for aggregation of Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indices. …