The capability approach defines poverty as a deprivation of capabilities, as a lack of multiple freedoms people value … and have reason to value. Chronic poverty focuses attention on that subset of poor persons whose capability deprivations … endure across time. But how should the dimensions of chronic poverty be selected? This question is complex because the …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a …-dependent poverty is higher for the population where all individuals experienced an income fall. Not only they are poor, they also feel …

The current paper reviews various measurements and analytical methods of poverty. Poverty can be construed as a state … nation. The paper discusses issues of poverty conception, definitions, inequality and good governance. It is concluded here … that improvements of incidence of poverty cannot be separated from the institutional and political make-up of a country …

push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …

to measure modern energy access or its deprivation, energy poverty. This paper discusses fi ve energy poverty measurement …

the best existing methods to obtain poverty estimates at a single snapshot in time? and over time? and what are the best … available methods to study poverty dynamics? A variety of different techniques have been developed to tackle these questions …, but unfortunately, they are presented in different forms and lack unified terminology. We offer a review of poverty …

This special issue comprises a set of nine papers that utilise the AF methodology. Their preliminary versions were … AF methodology used throughout this issue, define terms that are common across papers, and highlight the advantages and … limitations of this method. We also present other multidimensional poverty measures to which the AF measures are compared in some …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …