Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

This volume contains research on how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to … Theory and Empirics of Poverty, Inequality and Mobility at Queen Mary University of London, London, October 2016. The volume … conceptualisation of multidimensional poverty by incorporating inequality within the poor, and that of chronic poverty for time …

Poverty : major themes in past debates and current proposals / Gene Falk and Karen Spar -- Poverty in the United States …2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but poverty remains a difficult policy challenge. The Obama … Administration and some in Congress have offered proposals that seek to address poverty, with the proposals differing considerably in …

Nowadays, the concept of multidimensional poverty, inequality, deprivation, and well-being is not uncommon. While … and tools such as UNDP's MPI (multidimensional poverty index) are rapidly growing. Apart from income, various attributes …

"This book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach … operationalized, as well as a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward."--Page [4] of cover …

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility represent the most current research on poverty …, deprivation, and income mobility. They illustrate the multidimensionality of poverty that is difficult to capture in any one … measure. The volume presents state-of-the-art research that is relevant to poverty academics globally. The papers use a …