. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

The main goal of this paper is to adopt a multidimensional approach to poverty that goes beyond focusing on a …. In order to obtain multidimensional poverty measures the paper uses an approach based on fuzzy sets. This methodology is … the impact of non- income growth on poverty. Thus, following the study of Grosse et al. (2008), extended growth incidence …

A fundamental premise of absolute poverty lines is that they represent the same level of utility through time and space …. Disturbingly, a series of recent studies in middle- and low-income economies show that even carefully derived poverty lines rarely … satisfy this premise. This article proposes an information-theoretic approach to estimating cost-of-basic-needs (CBN) poverty …