This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs … Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis (MCA) techniques to construct a Composite Poverty Indicator (CPI). Moreover, we use the most … recent data from the country survey QUIBB 2006. The results of the incidence of multidimensional poverty by two approaches …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines how the challenge of poverty can be effectively addressed by broadly … curse of poverty for themselves and for their future generations.Design/methodology/approach – The elimination of poverty by … for the elimination of poverty reveals that the poverty gap can be eliminated through resource mobilization, as well as by …

A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require … the resources of a person into a permanent income standard that is then compared to a poverty line to determine when a …) poverty measure with the same parameter β is applied to the distribution of permanent income standards to measure overall …

growing economy to fall into a social poverty trap. We argue that this risk is particularly relevant for advanced societies ….-- social capital ; self-protection choices ; social poverty traps …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor … that poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption and poor governance were significant causes of Niger Delta militancy …

Ever-more sophisticated studies on the methodological approach and the conceptual scope of poverty have led to a … the location of the punctual and average indicators of poverty vis-à-vis the poverty line. This paper's objective is to … to a greater or lesser chance of belonging to each of the chronic and transitory poverty categories. Categorization …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …