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 …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation … demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose …

the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different … research approaches do not merely see the same poverty from different angles; rather, they tend to conceptualize poverty … character of poverty; its generative mechanisms; and epistemological priorities. The quantitative analysis provides an …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose poverty into …

Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been …, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has … reviews the evolution, current status, and future prospects of the poverty measurement literature on forcibly displaced …

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

Poverty is a broad term. The criteria that define poverty are a contentious issue. Just over nine per cent of the … cent of the population are at risk of poverty. A glance at the different methods of calculation explains this large … calculations to determine the number of people at risk of poverty, and to use this figure for managing poverty reduction policies. …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

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 …