It is common to argue that poverty is a multidimensional issue. Yet few studies have included the various dimensions of … deprivation to yield a broader and fuller picture of poverty. The present paper considers the multidimensional aspects of … deprivation by specifying a poverty line for each aspect and combines their associated one-dimensional poverty-gaps into …

Putting the combat against poverty to the fore as the main objective of the development process has raised the issue of … the linkage between economic growth, inequality and poverty. There is now a growing agreement that both the rate and the … distributional impact of growth are important in fighting poverty. This means that pro-poorness of a given growth rate is more …