The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …

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 research paper presents a multidimensional graphical modeling to study the behavior of the poverty of any country … from a multidimensional perspective. This multidimensional graphical modeling is called “the octahedron of poverty.” The … octahedron of poverty is not intended to use a forecasting model in any case. However, its application is not limited to the …

This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs … Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis (MCA) techniques to construct a Composite Poverty Indicator (CPI). Moreover, we use the most … recent data from the country survey QUIBB 2006. The results of the incidence of multidimensional poverty by two approaches …

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

This paper empirically examines the effect of financial development on poverty for a sample of developing countries … development on the poor when poverty is measured by the headcount index or the poverty gap at the cut-off line of $2 day (absolute … poverty). This finding is robust to the choice of a more conservative poverty line based on $1.25 a day. However, there is …

push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …

Multidimensional poverty measures give rise to a host of statistical hypotheses which are of interest to applied … minimum P-value methodology of Bennett (2010). When applied to study the relative state of poverty among Hindus and Muslims in …