addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

important to consider further how poverty indexes and axioms fare in variable population contexts. -- poverty ; measurement …Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of …

point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the …

work on economic poverty. Use of this general class of measures, however, presupposes a dimension of well-being that, like … from the literature on economic poverty, and demonstrates that the ordinal FGT measures indeed satisfy these core axioms …. Moreover, new dominance conditions, which allow for poverty rankings that are robust with respect to the choice of poverty line …

The view of poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon has swiftly become mainstream. However, the debate remains open as … to how such ‘multidimensional poverty' should be assessed in practical settings, particularly when identifying the … beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programmes. This paper develops a novel empirical approach that explicitly takes into account …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such … as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …