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 …

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 introduction of the temporal component into poverty analysis takes us to the study of the poverty dynamic, which … aspects unrelated to income in the study of vulnerability to poverty, the monetary approach is put aside and the … multidimensional approach is used to elaborate the well-being index. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is constructed with data …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad … poverty estimates based on administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of poverty estimates based on survey …

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 …

"Energy poverty" is a multidimensional concept that reflects the need to achieve a variety of wellbeing outcomes, which … has been scarcely studied and used in public policy agendas. Considering that the literature on energy poverty is still … incipient in Bolivia, this paper's objective is to generate evidence about energy poverty evolution in the country …

This essay will deal with the biggest problem I consider we face in modern times. The existence of extreme poverty in … fighting poverty and enhancing economic development …

This paper draws on the work in Lesotho and Namibia of tracking progress towards cutting poverty in half by 2015, which … is the key poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper serves at least two purposes. Firstly, it … measuring income poverty using household surveys and poverty lines based on observed consumption patterns. Secondly, it …

Few studies have reconciled the multidimensional nature of poverty with the cultural conditioning of population to … formulate and test four research hypotheses. Results show that observed differences in poverty dimensions result significantly … (which does not mean exclusively) from differences in the cultural value systems between groups. Culture influences poverty …

To understand and measure the poverty level of microfinance clients, ACCION is undertaking a multipart poverty …, expenditure and socio-economic characteristics of ACCION partners' clients with international and national poverty lines. The … objective of this framework document is to propose a structure for the initial poverty assessment. Available for download from …