Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the …

increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …: material standard of living, parental education, and parental childcare time. We compute multidimensional inequality and … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

multidimensional poverty in Zambia in 1996, 2006, and 2010. In addition to evaluating welfare across time and space, we extend the … detailed perspective on the evolution of rural poverty. Finally, we consider the sensitivity of FOD results to indicator …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the … weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and … used, the official income poverty rate deviates from those two. …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and … multiplicity of pyramid representations, poverty and inequality time trends in SSA can thus best be described as disconcerting in …

This paper explores a novel way to analyse poverty dynamics that are specific to certain measures of multidimensional … poverty, such as the "adjusted headcount ratio" proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011a). Assuming there is panel data available, I … show that a simultaneous and comprehensive account of transitions in deprivations and poverty allows complex …