The main goal of this paper is to adopt a multidimensional approach to poverty that goes beyond focusing on a …. In order to obtain multidimensional poverty measures the paper uses an approach based on fuzzy sets. This methodology is … the impact of non- income growth on poverty. Thus, following the study of Grosse et al. (2008), extended growth incidence …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

This Poverty report is aimed at improving the understanding of poverty in Ukraine, and providing linkages between … growth, the evolution of economic sectors, and poverty. The main findings can be summed up as follows: An absolute poverty … the population lived in poverty by 2003. While in 1999 Ukraine had a poverty incidence higher than Poland, Russia …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

used are inconsistent with the properties that are considered desirable for a measure of the level of poverty.The authors … measurement tools is the growth incidence curve, which gives growth rates by quantiles (such as percentiles) ranked by income …. Taking the area under this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of pro-poor growth …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …