composite index of deprivation; range ratio; relative mean deviation; standard deviation of logarithms; Gini coefficient …; Kuznets ratio; Theil inequality index, mean logarithmic deviation, and the Atkinson index. In the study settlements are either …

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

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 … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

considerations, axiomatic research on poverty and deprivation, and previous empirical research on social exclusion and subjective … deprivation and income poverty. Moreover, regression techniques reveal deprivation in social participation to reduce life …This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …