A multidimensional poverty assessment requires a weighting scheme to aggregate the well-being dimensions considered. We use Alkire and Foster’s (2011a) framework to discuss the channels through which a change of the weighting structure affects the outcomes of the analysis in terms of overall...

In this report we study the evolution of poverty and inequality in Italy in the period 1987‐2010. Our data are from the Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth and we use price indexes that allow both the dynamics and the levels of real incomes to differ (the reference year is...

In this paper we discuss a number of ways to define and measure the affordability of energy consumption, and we examine the emergence of fuel poverty in Italy in the period from 1998 to 2011. The paper examines the eligibility criteria for claiming the benefits available to support energy...