) portfolio. The aim is to assess portfolio performance using cumulative returns, the Sharpe ratio and the daily vola- tilities of … that MD portfolios exhibit greater diversification and a higher Sharpe ratio than other investment strategies, this was not …

approach by performing poverty comparisons using data for Indonesia and Peru. …We propose a methodology for comparing poverty over multiple periods across time and space without arbitrarily … aggregating income over various years or relying on arbitrarily specified poverty lines. Following Duclos et al. (2006a), we use …