This report addresses the challenges arising from a change in Mexico’s official poverty methodology from an income-only basis to a multidimensional basis that includes education, access to health services, access to social security, shelter characteristics, access to basic services, access to food, and level of social cohesion. The concept of poverty underlying this report is drawn from Amartya...

We propose a new class of multidimensional poverty indices. Aggregation of the different dimensions relies on individual preferences. The Pareto principle is, therefore, satisfied among the poor. The indices add up individual measures of poverty that are computed as a convex transform of the fraction of the poverty line vector to which the agent is indifferent. The axiomatic characterization of...

Abstract Although the older adult population faces a higher risk of poverty compared to others, there is no clear picture their in Iran. The aim this study was measure multidimensional and its related factors among Iranian adults. This cross-sectional conducted from July November 2019 collected data by interviewing 1,280 participants Tehran, To compute poverty, four dimensions were used: health...

A gender perspective highlights that poverty affects women and girls disproportionally due to biases, unequal division of power in society social expectations from the roles men women. Starting 1980s, feminist researchers had begun raise issue feminization poverty, stressed importance intersectionality between not only gender, but also ethnicity, age, marital status, etc.
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The multidimensional view of well-being is receiving growing attention, both in academic research and policy-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two problems in the use of synthetic multidimensional indices: the weighting structure of different functionings and the functional form of the index. These...

This paper aims at studying the multidimensional aspect of poverty in Guinea taking into account both the monetary and non monetary dimensions of poverty. We use data from the Full Base Survey on Poverty Assessment (FBSPA 2002-2003). The methodology relies on the fuzzy set approach of Dagum and Costa (2004) which is supplemented by the decomposition methods of Mussard and Pi Alperin (2005). The...

This paper states the need to design a multidimensional poverty index for the Latin America region (LAMPI) that can monitor poverty trends in a cross-country comparable way, yet is also relevant to the particular regional context. We review the region’s rich experience with multidimensional poverty measurement, as well as Europe’s experiences with multidimensional measurement. We set a number o...

In this paper, I examine the differences in health outcomes between children residing poor and non-poor households. order to identify household poverty, make use of framework multidimensional poverty as introduced by Alkire Foster (Journal Public Economics, 95(7–8), 2011). follow status (defined individuals aged 18 years or younger) over period 2012- 2017, using last three waves South African N...