This paper reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to … character of poverty; its generative mechanisms; and epistemological priorities. The quantitative analysis provides an … the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue that different …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the … imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this behavioral bias: the poor are more susceptible to both an aspirations … failure and pessimism about the likelihood of achieving success. Poverty limits the set of people whose life experiences the …

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the … imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this behavioral bias: the poor are more susceptible to both an aspirations … failure and pessimism about the likelihood of achieving success. Poverty limits the set of people whose life experiences the …

We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using … estimates produce qualitatively very similar results. We conclude that the principal conclusions of the poverty assessments are …

counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that … the space of feasible poverty definitions is finite and can be partitioned into at most (D2 +D)/2 parts, where D is the … bounding approach, which weights each dimension equally; and (ii) stochastic search, where coverage of the space of poverty …

In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension … poverty decomposition based only on the unique properties of each identification function; and metrics of dimensional power … close replica of the international MPI (multidimensional poverty index). …