or across countries. Below the basic heading level, these price data often exhibit large gaps. Therefore,stochastic index …-level indices. Although the two index number methods produce differing price level estimates when prices are missing, the present … the GEKS method. Using price data of Germany's Consumer Price Index, it can be observed that more narrowly defined products …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from … several unattractive features that need to be better understood (given the prominence of the index). The MPI fails in …

Index, even more clearly measures vote shifting needed to produce tied, then changed outcomes, with weighting by the …'s Index of Fractionalization – are highly correlated. Methods of expanding these measures to include non-voters or no …

push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …