This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. … aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This chapter provides a systematic overview of the Alkire-Foster multidimensional measurement methodology with an … present a case study using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the sixth section. The final section presents …

This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our … measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with loss aversion. We …, and Germany dominates the United States if poverty stocks are given more importance than poverty flows. The differences …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

dealt with in microeconomics and the measurement of welfare and poverty in empirical distribution studies. In this … theoretical framework the empirical possibilities of poverty and welfare measurement that can be found in the literature will be … calculations on the basis of the ECHP. This welfare theory based classification of poverty measures has the advantage that …