The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to … address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The … resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person … to core functionings. It constitutes the first implementation of the direct method to measure poverty for over 100 … framework that can complement global income poverty estimates …

both of these composite indices of poverty measurement. The results show that increases in the income from a cash grant … among low and even middle income countries. It helps mitigate income poverty and inequality, and has been shown to have a …. This paper uses the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to derive the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and …