This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … index prove helpful in better tracking and understanding developments. Moreover, I find poor individuals to be adversely …

This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with … respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty … and wealth. Additionally, a modification of the identification step of the Alkire-Foster index is proposed to guarantee …

multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness …The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median … that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the minds of both the government and the public. Especially since it …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such …

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition. …

poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes …