Most food insecurity research within the United States has focused on the headcount ratio of food insecurity, whic is, the percentage of households that are considered food insecure. Although this measure is important, using this measure alone, ignores the variation within the food hardship being experienced by U.S. households. In 2008, Dr. Craig Gundersen translated the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke ...

This paper describes and analyzes the relationship between agribusiness model welfare of population in Balcarce, an agricultural territory southeastern Buenos Aires, Argentina. The characteristics (farm size, labor force employed wealth generated) are described linked to poverty, labor, subjective well-being education indices. As general conclusions, it was observed that sector spills little do...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a multi-dimensional cumulative risk index (CRI) is a stronger predictor of asthma morbidity in urban, school-aged children with asthma, than poverty or severity alone. METHODS A total of 163 children with asthma, ages 7-15 years (42% female; 69% ethnic minority) and their primary caregivers completed interview-based questionnaires, focusing on potential cultural...

In this paper, we propose a new methodology of multidimensional poverty measurement. Our approach is based on using self-stated responses to household spending priorities. This information is first used to know what the relevant deprivations are. In particular, the stated top priorities allow us to identify the poor. For each household, the deprivations are aggregated according to relative weig...

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows agents to differ in dimensions that cannot always be precisely captured within the usual money-metric indicators of living standards. Examples of such dimensions include household size and composition, temporal or spatial variation in price indices, and individual needs and “merits”.

Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground * Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions, clashes with often vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing on the recent literature, this short note proposes three methodological alternatives to the false dichotomy between sc...

Nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. This study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in South western, Nigeria. A random multistage sampling was employed for the study. Ekiti and Osun states were randomly selected from the six states in South-western Nigeria. This was followed by random selection of two L...

This paper, which examines recently studied links between 1) poverty, high fertility, and undernourishment and 2) environmental degradation and civic disconnection in developing countries, opens by reviewing the limitations of orthodox discussions of economic institutions and property rights and the orthodox dichotomy that has located the cause of poverty in the suppression of markets. The int...

In his Presidential Address to the European Economic Association, Tony Atkinson introduced the idea of a “Charitable Conservatism” position in public policy, which “exhibits a degree of concern for the poor, but this is the limit of the redistributional concern and there is indifference with respect to transfers above the poverty line.” This contrasts with the perspective of poverty indices, wh...

Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a ‘focus axiom’ in the measurement of poverty. ‘Focus’ requires that a measure of poverty ought to be sensitive only to c...