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 …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … defining the poverty frontier, and those in which these two dimensions are integrated into a single index of welfare. We … illustrate the implications of these approaches on the structure of poverty using data for two industrialized countries …

1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty … -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic … Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Geographic Locales -- 7. Identifying the Determinants of …

This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in the United States and identifies patterns and … first part introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for viewing poverty through a lens of multiple … deprivations. It discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty …