inequality.  Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

This paper deals with the problem of selecting the unit of analysis in multidimensional poverty analyses, which is a …-level Multidimensional Poverty Index for Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru with a household-based measure. In the construction of the index …. Multidimensional poverty is considerably different than income poverty in all countries. A simple ranking constructed with the …

This paper provides a review of the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and … axiomatic properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on their functional form. The notion of poverty ordering is … then introduced and the relations between the poverty orderings that can be defined from classes of poverty indexes with …

approach" poverty measures, and to use ordinal variables as a means of understanding multidimensional poverty in two South …) to compare multidimensional poverty measures, such as the measure based on the Alkire and Foster approach (2011) and … individuals, such as the family of poverty measures introduced by Chakravarty and D’Ambrosio (2006) and Rippin (2010), and those …

Poverty has been a matter of great academic and political concern for decades. In the recent years, the interest has … increased considerably at the European Union level because poverty seems to be a relatively persistent phenomenon and a threat …, the distribution of poverty at the NUTS III level in Greece, as well as to evaluate and map the regional impact of the …