Strong opinions about the impact of globalization on poverty are not always backed by robust factual evidence. As …

who are currently poor. The MLI is then used to assess households’ vulnerability to future poverty using a 3-stage … Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) model. Our findings support the view that poverty is a dynamic phenomenon and not a … vulnerable to experiencing prolonged poverty. This study is among the first to adapt the multidimensional poverty framework to …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

The official estimates of poverty in Pakistan have shown a remarkable and consistent decline in the poverty headcount … during the previous decade. This paper examines trends in poverty between 2001 and 2011 using the official food energy intake … and the cost of basic needs approaches, both of which are modified to allow poverty lines to vary over time and space. The …

.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …