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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification …

poverty. The theoretical ideas will be illustrated by a description of empirical measures that were used in research on … poverty and distribution and examples based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). This data set gives the … possibility to calculate several poverty measures for relative income poverty, subjective income poverty and relative deprivation …

work on economic poverty. Use of this general class of measures, however, presupposes a dimension of well-being that, like … from the literature on economic poverty, and demonstrates that the ordinal FGT measures indeed satisfy these core axioms …. Moreover, new dominance conditions, which allow for poverty rankings that are robust with respect to the choice of poverty line …

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …