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 …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

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 …

There is growing support for the idea that global income poverty should be assessed with a measure accounting for both … paper studies the implications of requiring that the poverty measure makes a fair and welfare-consistent aggregation of … rule out the use of classical poverty indexes. In particular, the paper finds that the ubiquitoushead-count ratio violates …

been developed. However, one of the limitations of the existing indices is that they only provide an overall measurement …