One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Using comparable, nationally representative surveys and extending the work of [Sahn, DE, &
Stifel, DC (2000). Poverty comparisons over time and across countries in Africa. World …

Although there have been major improvements in oral health, with remarkable advances in
the prevention and management of oral diseases, globally, inequalities persist between …

Inequality refers to the skewed distribution of valued and scarce resources among people,
either individually or organised as groups. Currently, we are especially concerned with the …

Over the course of the middle half of the 20th century, countries around the world underwent
dramatic social transformations as incomes grew, inequality declined and living standards …

Composite indices have been prominently used in poverty research. However, validity of
these indices remains subject to debate. This paper examines the validity of a common type …

This paper generates multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children over a ten-
year period from 1993 to 2003. Data from the national Demographic and Health Survey are …

The impact of ecosystem services on human livelihood is rarely demonstrated. We
investigated whether ecosystem services influence household wealth in semi-arid rural Mali …

The monetary approach is not sufficient to understand the multiple dimension of poverty. The
purpose of this research is therefore to measure and analyze multidimensional poverty …

In this paper we study the potentialities of a multivariate index approach for measuring
competitiveness. Our proposal aims at developing a multidimensional economic …