", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because … insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …

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 …

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 …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures use the household as the unit of analysis so that the multidimensional … poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members. For this reason …, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …

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 …

adaptation to poverty. This study finds that poverty entry means a transition from a situation where individuals have sufficient … life satisfaction (LS) significantly decrease. In the long run, those who remain in poverty are trapped in the situation of …

This paper demonstrates that well-established biases in decision making under uncertainty can generate poverty traps. A … erroneously undervalue profitable investments, and ii) poverty increases the magnitude of these investment errors. The model … predicts that poverty is perpetuated by inducing poor individuals to underinvest in profitable opportunities to a greater …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …