This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

capital redistribution, as well as education, health and poverty-alleviation spending reduce the incentives for appropriation …

severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because … insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …

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 … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

This paper investigates whether financial development is conducive in poverty reduction. Separating financial … physical access is beneficial in reducing the proportion of people below the poverty line. Using alternative measures of … financial instability, the results also challenge existing findings that it may increase the incidence of poverty. In addition …

This contribution investigates the phenomenon of food poverty, focusing on the dimensions, forms and dynamics that this … the pandemic and the increase in the prices of necessities, the incidence and intensity of food poverty have changed …

This paper analyzes the role of women's work in reducing poverty in Vietnam during the period of 2004-08. We use t … research has used expenditure per equivalence of scale before. The determinants of poverty rates in Vietnam are also considered …. The result shows that women's work itself is not enough to reduce poverty in Vietnam. The problem of being poor mainly …

In this paper we compute a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) for Uganda following the approach proposed by Alkire … and Forster (2007). Using household survey data we show how the incidence of multi-dimensional poverty has fallen in …-dimensional poverty. We also compare the results from Uganda with other countries for which the MPI has been computed and we note some …