Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly. A particular
counting approach to multidimensional poverty measurement, developed by Sabina Alkire …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty,
understood as a person's inability to meet minimum international standards in indicators …

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 …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement
consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union …

This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional
inequality and poverty. It first outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional …

Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in
Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (Econometrica 52: 761–776, 1984). The present study …

Poverty has probably always been understood as a multidimensional problem, yet
traditionally it has been measured with one dimension: income. 1 The assumption was that …

This chapter reviews the main features of multidimensional indices of inequality and poverty.
For each of these cases, the discussion is divided into two approaches: a direct approach …

The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has
made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade …

A method to measure vulnerability to multidimensional poverty is proposed under a mean–
risk behaviour approach. We extend the unidimensional downside mean–semideviation …