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 …

constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of constitutional language of the economic and social rights matter … important results. First, we do not find an association between constitutional rights generally framed and poverty. Second, we … do not find an association between economic and social rights framed as directive principles and poverty. Third, we do …

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 … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

Post reform India has generated high economic growth, yet progress in income poverty and many other key development … 2015-16 in reducing multidimensional poverty captured by the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We employ a … associated with an annual reduction in MPI of 1.34 percent. The association of the national growth to state poverty reduction …

refugees in the world. The data are used to construct a multidimensional livelihood index (MLI) to identify refugee households … who are currently poor. The MLI is then used to assess households’ vulnerability to future poverty using a 3-stage … Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) model. Our findings support the view that poverty is a dynamic phenomenon and not a …

We simulate the impact of actual food price increase between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas … households, the opposite is true for the poverty gap and poverty severity measures, because poor agricultural households are …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement …

Contemporary researches on economic inequality and poverty are pointing out that their key causes appear in the field … important terms of poverty. In compliance with findings that submit theoretical and empirical evidence of their connection, they … poverty and economic inequality, as well as reaching the level of development of the most successful CEE and EU countries …