rounds of Living Standards Measurement Study surveys from Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ghana to construct indices …, perform well in urban settings. Yet, in rural samples and when identifying the extreme poor, household rankings and poverty …

This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are … of poverty outcomes over time. It presents the various methods under a common framework, with pedagogical discussion on …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

. First, there is a close link between natural disasters and poverty. On average, the estimates suggest that almost half a … million Filipinos per year face transient consumption poverty due to natural disasters. Nationally, the bottom income quintile … areas. A focus on poverty or wellbeing rebalances the analysis and generates a different set of regional priorities. Finally …

There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes … provide poverty estimates in such contexts. These range from estimates on a nonmonetary basis, estimates for specific project … targeting or tracking trends at the national level, to estimates at a more disaggregated level, as well as estimates of poverty …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since …

evidence on changes in overlapping deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional poverty. It assesses the … overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and … urban areas. It highlights that although Ethiopia?s multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been …