The notion of poverty as an experience of multiple deprivation has been widely acknowledged. In Indonesia, however, poverty assessment has almost exclusively been conducted within the monetary space; even when multidimensionality is admitted, it has always been computed using variants of marginal method that are indifferent to joint deprivation. Applying a novel measurement method that is sensi...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses the multidimensional child poverty status and its dynamic changes in China from 1989 to 2009 using the China Health and Nutrition survey data. Built on the Alkire–Foster methodology, the adjusted child poverty headcount ratio is calculated which measures not only the traditional headcount ratio of child poverty but also the average deprivation intensity...

Housing mobility programs enable families living in high-poverty neighborhoods to relocate to lowerpoverty neighborhoods using tenant-based subsidies. Recent research indicates that these programs improve participant outcomes on a number of economic and social outcomes. Can such programs be run at a scale sufficient to help a large proportion of eligible families? Would doing so change the char...

Overall poverty reduction may leave the poorest behind and thus it is a fair question to ask if the poverty reduction has taken place among the poorest of the poor. A typical approach is to set a more stringent poverty cutoff and assess the situation of those that are the poorest or destitute. In income poverty measurement, they are often referred as ultra poor. This paper instead pursues a mul...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of the Portuguese Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) Programme on income distribution and to evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency in fighting situations of poverty and social exclusion. We estimate its impact on the distribution of household incomes and poverty as well as the amount of government expenditure necessary to finance the progra...

The MPI assesses the nature and intensity of poverty at the individual level, with poor people being those who are multiply deprived and the extent of their poverty being measured by the extent of their deprivations. The MPI creates a vivid picture of people living in poverty within and across countries, regions and the world. It is the first international measure of its kind, and offers an ess...

This paper proposes an approach to poverty measurement based on the interpretation of as a welfare loss, along lines laid in Chakravarty [Chakravarty, S. R. 1983. “Ethically Flexible Measures Poverty.” Canadian Journal Economics 16: 74–85]. A multidimensional index is derived here from social function and vector thresholds, following aggregate achievement approach. Poverty measured relative los...

Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons’ income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of ...

We analyze the effect on poverty of a significant increase in minimum wage using quasi-experimental situation Mexico. In January 2019, Mexican government announced an wage: most country it increased by 16 per cent, while 43 municipalities along U.S. border 100 cent. Using household surveys and official method for calculating labor income poverty, we implement difference-in-difference synthetic ...