Empirical applications of poverty measurement often have to deal with a stochastic weighting variable such as household … distributions of the decomposable curves. The poverty line is allowed to depend on the income distribution. It is shown how the … results can be used to test hypotheses concerning changes in poverty. The inference procedures are briefly illustrated using …

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 …