This work builds on previous research to develop a methodology that simplifies the identification of the best policy … options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily … identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choosing of …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures use the household as the unit of analysis so that the multidimensional … poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members. For this reason …, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …

", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because … insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all … individual-based multidimensional poverty mea- sure in order to estimate the three Is of multidimensional poverty (incidence …

persistence of high levels of poverty and inequality. We conclude with a discussion of these challenges and of specific actions …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are …

We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … recipients. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that …