This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs … Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis (MCA) techniques to construct a Composite Poverty Indicator (CPI). Moreover, we use the most … recent data from the country survey QUIBB 2006. The results of the incidence of multidimensional poverty by two approaches …

This Poverty report is aimed at improving the understanding of poverty in Ukraine, and providing linkages between … growth, the evolution of economic sectors, and poverty. The main findings can be summed up as follows: An absolute poverty … the population lived in poverty by 2003. While in 1999 Ukraine had a poverty incidence higher than Poland, Russia …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …

"Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi …-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is … mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome. Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income …