. We also find that income poverty is not a reliable proxy to measure multiple deprivations: 5.5% of the population, an … measurement efforts are needed on overlapping multiple deprivations in the US as such measures can be used in policy evaluation …

address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U … of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

On the international stage, poverty is increasingly understood multi-dimensionally as a deprivation of wellbeing in … people who are not counted as poor under the official or supplemental measures of income poverty experience multidimensional … poverty. Yet there is no monitoring of multidimensional poverty. This paper examines trends in multidimensional poverty in the …

of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I …Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … ; poverty …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …