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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

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 …

-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the …