Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … one dimension: income. Upcoming multidimensional poverty measures have challenged this established assumption, claiming … that the correlation between the various dimensions of poverty is in fact not strong enough for income to serve as a proxy …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … average incomes surged from 2017 to 2018 they were still below their peak in 2014. More than 80% of all income growth between … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … average incomes surged from 2017 to 2018 they were still below their peak in 2014. More than 80% of all income growth between … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …

We introduce the Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP), which is developing two separate datasets (The Global … Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of … monthly real consumption and income of every decile of the population (a ‘consumption/income profile’) for the vast majority …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …