Based on a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo … between 1988 and 1998 reveals a downward trend using both relative and absolute poverty lines. Over the two periods studied …, non-monetary poverty strongly increased in the rural households and appears to be present on a large scale in the Savanna …

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty … discuss major shortcoming and challenges of the reporting and end with a brief conclusion. -- capability approach ; poverty …