This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … can reflect the reduction in deprivation attributable to the improved affordability and expanded coverage of government … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous …

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … socio-economic development. Following the logic of fuzzy sets theory, we explain poverty as deprivation from – for example … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target …

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … socio-economic development. Following the logic of fuzzy sets theory, we explain poverty as deprivation from – for example … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target …

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 …

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. …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

) explaining level of socio-economic development. Following the logic of fuzzy sets theory, we explain poverty as deprivation from …), we present an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The … main target of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further … highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty … review two common uses of poverty imputation methods that aim at tracking poverty over time and estimating poverty dynamics …