The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), 'An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty … Index', Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81-86 -- 2. Amartya Sen (1976), 'Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement … Decomposable Poverty Measures', Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761-66 -- 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), 'On the Measurement of Poverty …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all … individual-based multidimensional poverty mea- sure in order to estimate the three Is of multidimensional poverty (incidence …