. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

avenues for further research. -- well-being ; multidimensional poverty ; distance function ; Catalonia …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It … Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement -- 1 The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assesments -- 2 … The Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty: the Case of Italy in the 1990s -- 3 The Rasch Model and …