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

Women's empowerment has a great influence on health, nutrition, education, and the overall
well-being of societies as well as of the children and households. This study investigates the …

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 …

India has witnessed high economic growth since the 1980s, and a confirmed reduction in
monetary poverty, particularly in poorer states. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …

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

In poverty measurement, differential weighting aims to take into account the unequal
importance of the diverse dimensions and aspects of poverty and to add valuable …

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 …

The demand for rigorous measures of well-being that go beyond economic conditions is
evident in the reverberating echoes of the Stiglitz Sen Fitoussi report commissioned by …

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 …