With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and … emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously … neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies …

We propose a new methodology to revise the international poverty line (IPL) after Ravallion et al. (2009) using the … same database, but augmented with new variables to take into account social inclusion in the definition of poverty along …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …