This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand …-economic panel data from Vietnam to calculate environmental income variables and a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI). MPIs have … been developed to understand poverty in more detail and implement more efficient policies to lift people out of poverty. We …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …