The importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …

This paper contributes to the axiomatic foundation of multidimensional poverty measures. A well-known problem in the … exaggerated poverty rates. So far, this problem has been addressed by either changing the identification method itself or by …, automatically solved as well. Finally, we derive a family of poverty measures whose specific, axiomatically implied weighting …

The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …