This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition. …

Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …