This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with … respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty … and wealth. Additionally, a modification of the identification step of the Alkire-Foster index is proposed to guarantee …

poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes …

The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to … address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The … resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non …

territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions …We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …

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 …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …