). Finally we study the causes of the obtained polarization results in a multinomial logit analysis. -- polarization ; poverty …

This paper examines the substantive pros and cons of the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) recently developed by … Oxford University's Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). It provides comparative cross-country and country …-specific discussion on multidimensional poverty and inequality in the non-income space, with a special reference to the countries in the …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …