[Introduction] From a money-metric perspective, poverty is a crystal-clear concept. A
household is considered to be poor (poverty is typically estimated for households, not for …

The most widely used and dominant measures of poverty are monetary. Monetary measures
of poverty track either a lack of income or a lack of consumption-expenditure. While income …

Poverty is precisely how we define it and how any concept is defined determines how it is
quantified. Identifying the extent and magnitude of poverty is thus essentially a …

[Introduction] Debate about national and international poverty measurement continued to
evolve (see for example, Abu-Ismail et al., 2012). The basic question of how many poor …

The three papers on multidimensional poverty published in the 2011 June issue of the
Journal of Economic Inequality [1–3] present strong cases in favor of their respective …

In monitoring poverty, the focus is typically on monetary poverty—the extent to which people
have very low income or consumption levels. The definition of “extreme poverty” used by the …

Abstract The World Bank's global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems
arising from a single source, the lack of a standard for identifying who is poor and who is not …

In order to describe these methodologies, the underlying rationale and the factors which
have contributed to the current shape of this “approach”, we will start by discussing the …

The basic question about 'how many poor people are there in the world?'generally assumes
that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally …

“We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women, and children from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are …