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 …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second … is a new measure of global poverty combining absolute poverty with country-specific social inclusion needs, consistently …

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 …

As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the … development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How … feasible is that? For most of the developing world, the goal seems ambitious, yet achievable -- but what about the prospects …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … the Gini index in each country decreases by 1 percent per year, the global poverty rate could reduce to around 5.4 percent … in 2030, equivalent to 100 million fewer people living in extreme poverty. Reducing each country's Gini index by 1 …

believe that any single index can ever be a sufficient statistic for poverty assessments? Second, when aggregation is called … multidimensional index. When weights are needed, they shouldn' t be set solely by an analyst measuring poverty. Rather, they should be …There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World …