antipoverty policy. While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for … to avoid poverty. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS …) database contains the information needed to construct comparable poverty measures for more than 30 nations. It allows …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …