This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...

This paper reviews the main problems that have to be faced when taking a multidimensional approach to poverty and gives a survey of the solutions that have hitherto been proposed to solve these problems. The paper starts with a quick summary of the cardinal approach to uni-dimensional poverty...

In recent years, European policy has come to include the fight against poverty and social exclusion. In the context of the Open Method of Coordination, common indicators of poverty were developed. Often, these indicators are a function of household income. In the scientific literature, by...

Este trabajo se enmarca en las investigaciones que analizan la pobreza desde una perspectiva multidimensional e intentan aproximarse a su medición incorporando aspectos no exclusivamente económicos. El objetivo es llevar a cabo una aplicación para las comunidades autónomas españolas. Para...

Este trabajo analiza la evolución temporal de la privación o pobreza multidimensional. En la mayor parte de los trabajos de la literatura relativa a dinámica y pobreza se ha analizado con detalle la evolución, tipología y factores que afectan a la pobreza monetaria. En general, se ha...

We present here a multidimensional poverty index that measures poverty as a function of the extent and the intensity of poverty. Extent is given by the share of the poor in the population. To measure intensity we start by defining individual unidimensional deprivation indices (one for each...

In this article, we analyze the impact of the Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados on structural poverty. This social assistance program, introduced in 2002 as a response to the severe economic and political crisis that affected Argentina at the end of 2001, proposes a cash transfer to...