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resilience programs in local communities. Six (6) of the Community Based Monitoring System 13+1 Core Local Poverty Indicators …
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to measure modern energy access or its deprivation, energy poverty. This paper discusses fi ve energy poverty measurement …
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The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the … weight, which is very close to the OECD-modified weight. Applying the estimated scales affects the income poverty rate and … used, the official income poverty rate deviates from those two. …
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This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … poverty is examined. Both show a clear gradient with respect to maternal education. The dynamics of both unidimensional and …
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This paper explores the feasibility of calculating absolute poverty lines on the basis of minimum food expenditures in … the developing world deliver either inadequate poverty estimates in rich countries characterised by a relatively low food … application of the new method using household budget survey data from Italy shows that resulting poverty estimates are in line …
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This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …
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This paper applies a partial identification approach to poverty measurement when data errors are non-classical in the … and applied to the setting of poverty measurement. The methodology developed in this essay is applied to the estimation of … additively separable poverty measures. A methodology to draw statistical inference on partially identified parameters is extended …
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Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit … national household expenditure survey is from 2014/15, just before these crises unfolded, there is need for a poverty … study the evolution of multidimensional poverty in Mozambique using the Demographic and Health Surveys/Malaria Indicator …
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This paper explores a novel way to analyse poverty dynamics that are specific to certain measures of multidimensional … poverty, such as the "adjusted headcount ratio" proposed by Alkire & Foster (2011a). Assuming there is panel data available, I … show that a simultaneous and comprehensive account of transitions in deprivations and poverty allows complex …
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