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 …

More data on non-income dimensions of poverty are available than at any previous time in history. Alongside this … new possibilities to measure multidimensional poverty at the local, national and international level. Yet the fact that … when, how and why certain multidimensional poverty measures add value, sketches the limits of the contribution, and …

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …

effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points … Agatha with respect to the harvest cycle of the main crops. The results are robust to placebo treatments, household migration …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …

significantly higher in rural areas and in the less developed western provinces. But relative to the income poverty, the …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 …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … document significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

fact to identify the impact of opening a rural bank on poverty and output. Our estimates suggest that the Indian rural … branch expansion program significantly lowered rural poverty, and increased non-agricultural output. … Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirical evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian central …