This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty …

implications for other dimensions of household welfare were hardly examined. We add to this literature by using panel data from … treatment effects of supermarket contracts on income and multidimensional poverty. On average, supermarket contracts increase … per capita income in smallholder farm households by 60%. We also find significant reductions in income poverty and …

-economic panel data from Vietnam to calculate environmental income variables and a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI). MPIs have …The environmental-poverty nexus has been subject to research especially in relation to climate change. On the one hand … been developed to understand poverty in more detail and implement more efficient policies to lift people out of poverty. We …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new …