1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty … -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic … Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Geographic Locales -- 7. Identifying the Determinants of …

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit …

This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time — 2003 and 2007 — from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty regardless of the indicators’ weights, deprivation cutoffs and identification criterion of the poor. This … poverty among those who were less intensively poor, although not among those who were more intensively poor. Rather than …