Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the structure of rural poverty in China. Based on data from the China … Household Income Project (CHIP) in 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013, we analyze: 1.) Anti-poverty trends and problems during the … recent three decades. 2.) The structure of poverty during the recent period in comparison with previous periods. We consider …

Tanzania fails to bring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region and to reduce …

This paper aims to provide a detailed demographic description of poverty in Pakistan with an attempt to highlight those … segments of the poor who can be aided to transition out of extreme poverty through appropriate policy measures. Data are … collected from the Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) for the years 1985–2016 and captures falling poverty, gender …

poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in …This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different …

This study is an attempt to estimate the incidence, severity, depth, and determinants of poverty in Jhang district …, Punjab, Pakistan. For this purpose, the data were collected from 1,000 households through a specifically designed …-regression model and logistic regression to assess the impact of demographic and socioeconomic factors on poverty incidence. The …