in society. Given this ideological shift, the Official poverty measure, which is based on the premise that all families …-size-specific threshold, appears to have less policy relevance now than in prior years. In this paper we present a new concept of poverty …, Self-Reliance poverty, which is based on the ability of a family, using its own resources, to support a level of …

healthcare which reflect quality of life are not included. Thus, a more comprehensive poverty measurement is deemed appropriate … to reflect poverty. The objective of the paper is to propose an Islamic poverty measurement, proxied by Islamic Poverty …Islamic organizations such as zakāt institutions conceptualize poverty from the monetary perspective to identify the …

The limitations of income‐based poverty lines are widely acknowledged, but Australia lags behind many other countries … income‐based poverty rates …

as a measure of the lack of freedom to achieve a minimal set of functionings. Applying our methodology to data on the two …

cities in Mexico, presents households in poverty conditions similar to those observed in the poorest regions of the country … with high levels of social backwardness and poverty levels. For this purpose, an ethnographic technique called personal … networks and statistical analysis were used to observe how households with higher levels of poverty use their social capital as …

of possible impacts of measurement errors on poverty analysis are briefly discussed. These experiments clearly show the …This paper firstly aims to evaluate the incidence of measurement error affecting the main variables collected in … the case of panel data, an estimation of the incidence of measurement error on the total variance can be obtained by …

For meaningful policy analysis, it is important not only to look at overall poverty, and compare countries or regions … the dynamics of poverty. This extends the methodological toolkit presented in Chapter 5. First we present a new measure of … methodological extensions that are required for inter-temporal analysis of poverty using repeated cross-sectional data, and for the …

The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …

This chapter presents a constructive survey of the major existing methods for measuring multidimensional poverty. Many …