economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …

Anti-poverty policies often aim to reach poor individuals by targeting poor households. However, intra … individual-level poverty rates that account for intra-household inequality. We show that women, children, and the elderly face … significant probabilities of living in poverty even in households with per-capita expenditure above the poverty threshold …

poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of change in income distribution during recent decades. Neither … conflicts. Among the strategic elements that have contributed to reduced poverty are: an outward-oriented strategy of export … in reducing poverty. Growth can be substantial if the policy and institutional environment is right. …

This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the …

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 …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on … equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. -- Prospect Theory …

The view of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon has swiftly become mainstream. However, the debate remains open as … to how such ‘multidimensional poverty' should be assessed in practical settings, particularly when identifying the … beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programmes. This paper develops a novel empirical approach that explicitly takes into account …