The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …

This paper tests for robust multidimensional poverty comparisons across six countries of the West African Economic and … Monetary Union (WAEMU). Two dimensions are considered, nutritional status and assets. The estimation of the asset index is …. Multidimensional poverty is also inferred to be more prevalent in rural than in urban areas. These results tend to support those …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …

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