Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health …

cities in Mexico, presents households in poverty conditions similar to those observed in the poorest regions of the country … with high levels of social backwardness and poverty levels. For this purpose, an ethnographic technique called personal … networks and statistical analysis were used to observe how households with higher levels of poverty use their social capital as …