monitoring progress in child poverty reduction based on the Alkire and Foster adjusted headcount ratio and an array of … complementary techniques. A theoretical discussion is accompanied by an assessment of child poverty reduction in Bangladesh based on … decomposability as desirable properties of multidimensional poverty measures. Complementary techniques for analysing changes over time …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 developing countries … can complement global income poverty estimates. …

Poverty has been increasingly conceptualized as being multidimensional, involving deprivation in many dimensions of … life. This paper discusses issues and implications of multidimensional poverty by adopting concepts commonly used in … ecological economics. In particular, poverty is approached as an irreducible, complex phenomenon for which many legitimate, but …

This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time … multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of countries which cover about … 78 percent of the world´s population. The MPI has the mathematical structure of one of the Alkire and Foster poverty …

measures of poverty through a simulation (Monte Carlo) method. The measures [totally fuzzy (TF), totally fuzzy and relative … (TFR), and integrated fuzzy and relative (IFR)] acknowledge that (1) poverty is a multidimensional concept, and (2) the …

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and armed conflict in Antioquia, Colombia. The poverty analysis is … framed within Sen’s capability approach, which forms the conceptual basis of the multidimensional poverty index (Alkire and … municipality. The possible existence of a relationship between poverty and armed conflict is analyzed through exploratory and non …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … affected by general trends in deprivation indicators. Comparing multidimensional and income-based methods, I find only a modest …

conclusions from the country's official income-based poverty measure, which acknowledges lower poverty levels in rural areas, our …