traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …

This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

work on economic poverty. Use of this general class of measures, however, presupposes a dimension of well-being that, like … from the literature on economic poverty, and demonstrates that the ordinal FGT measures indeed satisfy these core axioms …. Moreover, new dominance conditions, which allow for poverty rankings that are robust with respect to the choice of poverty line …

The view of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon has swiftly become mainstream. However, the debate remains open as … to how such ‘multidimensional poverty' should be assessed in practical settings, particularly when identifying the … beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programmes. This paper develops a novel empirical approach that explicitly takes into account …

the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …

The challenges associated with poverty measurement within an axiomatic framework, especially with cardinal variables … meaningfully assess poverty with ordinal variables, capturing the depth of deprivations. In this paper, we first propose a class of … additively decomposable ordinal poverty measures and provide an axiomatic characterisation using a set of basic foundational …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

for poverty defined using either absolute or relative thresholds. Some evidence indicates that while those living in rural …Very few studies currently exist on poverty adaptation to subjective well-being. We offer analysis on poverty … adaptation for Russia, a middle-income country in transition, using panel data for 2001-2017. We found no poverty adaption for …