This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world's population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and … the close linkage between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that this finding is driven by a specification that …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing … development, namely: quality of growth, inequality and poverty. As a main policy implication, encouraging mobile banking … applications would play a substantial role in responding to the challenges of immiserizing growth, inequality and poverty in …

Poverty measures that are widely used generate inconsistency and incoherence because of their failure to be adequately … source of the observed difficulties. Only poverty measures that are consistently grounded in a suitable value framework can …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …