A multidimensional poverty assessment requires a weighting scheme to aggregate the well-being dimensions considered. We … affects the outcomes of the analysis in terms of overall poverty assessment, its dimensional and subgroup decomposability and … structures affect the measurement of poverty for the population of over 50s in ten European countries. Further, we show that in …

In this paper we compute a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) for Uganda following the approach proposed by Alkire … and Forster (2007). Using household survey data we show how the incidence of multi-dimensional poverty has fallen in …-dimensional poverty. We also compare the results from Uganda with other countries for which the MPI has been computed and we note some …

poverty. The theoretical ideas will be illustrated by a description of empirical measures that were used in research on … poverty and distribution and examples based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). This data set gives the … possibility to calculate several poverty measures for relative income poverty, subjective income poverty and relative deprivation …

Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent … work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and … Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method … ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification …

The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion … fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?Although far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that we have … successfully reduced many of the deprivations of material poverty, especially in the early years of the War on Poverty. However …

In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty … method and regression analysis to test the stability of multidimensional poverty measures and probe the often-observed mis …-match between multidimensional measures and income measures. We find as expected that China’s multidimensional poverty is …

When ever the Planning Commission of India releases the poverty data, that data is being criticised by experts and … economists. The main criticism is underestimation of poverty especially in rural India by the Planning Commission. This paper … focuses on that criticism and compares the Indian Planning Commission’s 2004-05 rural poverty data with the India’s 2400 kcal …

The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …