This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure …

poverty at the household level. Our application is to indictors of assets, undernutrition, and illiteracy drawn from the … multidimensional traps, involving two or more simultaneous distinct poverty dimensions of persistent poverty; these include a subset of … cases in which an interlocking poverty trap is effectively formed as a result of deprivations functioning as complements. We …

the expected sign with a significant effect. The compensation to the poor is at least 46.20% of the lower poverty line …, while the intermediate group receives a compensation of at least 14.47% of the upper poverty line. …