addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the …In this paper, we apply the first-order dominance (FOD) approach to assessing multidimensional welfare to analyse … methodology to evaluate welfare by rural agricultural strata and urban housing cost areas. This modification allows a more …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi … in the middle. The methodologies also complement each other by providing upper and lower bounds on underlying welfare …

The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. 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 …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many …-oriented farming - can play a central role in improving smallholder welfare. Previous studies evaluated the impact of agricultural … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was …