The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those …

significant gender differences in multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua; but, they are estimated to be small and lower than 5 …Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all …