This paper suggests that important improvements in the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) can be made by including government provisions of health care and education, and by directly calculating the contribution of natural resources and leisure, and adjusting for inequality, using a global norm...

It is widely recognised that household surveys do not fully capture the incomes of the very richest individuals and households, particularly those among the so-called “top 1%”, for reasons including non-response and under-reporting. As a consequence, estimates based on survey data alone...

The World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index has been widely employed to measure country statistical capacity since its inception two decades ago. This paper builds on the existing advantages of the Statistical Capacity Index, conceptually and empirically, to offer new statistical performance...

The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as various weighting systems on the indicator's creation, may...

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...