This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 …. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und …

Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper … proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition … of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by Alkire and colleagues. This makes it possible to assess a vast …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

This research paper presents a multidimensional graphical modeling to study the behavior of the poverty of any country … from a multidimensional perspective. This multidimensional graphical modeling is called “the octahedron of poverty.” The … octahedron of poverty is not intended to use a forecasting model in any case. However, its application is not limited to the …

This paper estimates and maps the multidimensional poverty for rural Pakistan. It uses micro data from household … surveys to construct the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with human development indicators like education, health …, health, standard of living and wealth in the rural multidimensional poverty as overall and district levels. The results show …

expansion of inflation, reduction of the purchasing power parity, and poverty expansion from a multidimensional perspective …. This visualization is only possible by creating a new multivariate graphical modeling called "The Multidimensional Poverty … Kaleidoscope Graph." The multidimensional poverty kaleidoscope graph is not intended to use a forecasting model in any case …

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 …