high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …