This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product designed to compensate … poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth dynamics based on a model parameterized using rich panel and experimental … data from the region. The simulations allow us to investigate patterns of willingness to pay for asset index insurance that …

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from …This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such …

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 … push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …