; chronic poverty ; early poverty ; poverty measurement …This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the … theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells …

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 …