Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

This paper proposes a ranking method of multidimensional poverty and extends it aiming to enhance its practical utility …. While our original ranking method that assumes non-comparability among different dimensions of poverty succeeds in … that this extension also improves the robustness of the ranking against measurement errors …

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition. …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

income poverty line ('dollar-a-day'), this paper discusses whether there is merit to develop an Asia-specific poverty line … situation. We consider various ways of creating an Asia-specific poverty line, including an Asia-specific international income … poverty line (using purchasing-power parity [PPP] adjusted dollars) that is derived from Asian national poverty lines. We …