This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty … reduction. Using the Human Development Index as a measure of well-being, the progress made by 100 countries during 1975-98 is …

Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …

close replica of the international MPI (multidimensional poverty index). …In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension … poverty decomposition based only on the unique properties of each identification function; and metrics of dimensional power …

This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach … variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to crime. Secondly, data is analysed using an ARDL ECM. The quarterly … sample data for our estimation is for the period 1995-2016. We found a strong association between crime and poverty both in …

. This paper proposes a simple new distribution sensitive welfare index with intuitive units: the average factor by which … individual incomes must be multiplied to attain a given reference level of income. This new index is subgroup decomposable with … population weights and satisfies the three main definitions of distribution sensitivity in the literature. Variants on this index …