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 …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such …