Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement – particularly with respect to the identific...

Multidimensional measures provide an alternative lens through which poverty may be viewed and understood. In recent work we have attempted to offer a practical approach to identifying the poor and measuring aggregate poverty (Alkire and Foster 2011). As this is quite a departure from traditional unidimensional and multidimensional poverty measurement – particularly with respect to the identific...

Draft: please do not cite without permission. When poverty measures reflect the experiences of poor people, then this empowers those working to reduce poverty to do so more effectively and efficiently. The literature on Multidimensional Poverty Measures has surged forward in the last decade. This paper describes the broad directions of change, then presents a new and very simple measurement met...

PURPOSE It is known that strong feelings of self-efficacy are linked with better management of asthma. However, it is not known whether the experience of poverty can detrimentally impact the self-efficacy feelings of asthma patients. This paper aims to determine whether falling into income or multidimensional poverty lowers self-efficacy among people diagnosed with asthma. METHODS Longitudina...

BACKGROUND Those with a low income are known to have a higher risk of developing heart disease. However, the inverse relationship - falling into income poverty after developing heart disease has not been explored with longitudinal data. This paper aims to determine if those with heart disease have an elevated risk of falling into poverty. METHODS Survival analysis was conducted using the long...

Over the past 20 years, poverty has conceived as a multidimensional issue, not only onedimensional issue based on conventional indicators (i.e., income or expenditure). While a relatively huge literature has focused on the dynamic analysis of one-dimensional poverty, little attention has been given to the dynamics of multidimensional poverty. Using a panel data drawn from the Survey of Income a...

This paper draws on a recent household survey to examine the incidence and depth of poverty in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It replicates the Multidimensional Poverty Index recently developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. This represents the first time that the Multidimensional Poverty Index is calculated for the Solomon Islands and the first time that it is report...