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Decomposing Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A growing interest in multidimensional poverty measures among academics and policymakers has been patent in recent years. Yet the literature has focused on cross-sectional evidence. This paper proposes a novel decomposition of changes in multidimensional poverty, as measured by the basic members of the Alkire–Foster family of measures. The method works
Apablaza, M, Yalonetzky, G
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Transcending Multidimensional Poverty Classes in Urban Developing Municipalities

open access: yesPoverty & Public Policy
The study draws on the multidimensional poverty index to characterize the poverty status of households in the Gauteng City Region, South Africa. In particular, it applies multinomial logit regression and mediation analysis to determine the factors ...
A. Mazenda   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The multidimensionality of poverty: Time poverty in Spain [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Time Use Research, 2020
In the last few years the concept of poverty has evolved from simply being a measure of income poverty to a multidimensional measure that takes into consideration essential aspects for the attainment of certain levels of wellbeing. This paper assesses how the incorporation of time can contribute to the measurement of poverty.
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Does building the resilience of rural households reduce multidimensional poverty? Analysis of panel data in Ethiopia

open access: yesScientific African, 2021
Enhancing resilience capacity holds the key to welfare improvement. While there are assumptions that resilience has led to curbing poverty, in fact, the empirics are limited to ascertain the linkages between resilience and multidimensional poverty and ...
Dereje Haile   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time

open access: yesInternational Political Science Review, 2023
We analyse the relationship between multidimensional poverty trends and changing dynamics of conflict in Nigeria in 2008–2018. We take a wide notion of poverty going beyond purely monetary hardships and considering simultaneously experienced non-monetary
Ricardo Nogales, C. Oldiges
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Measuring poverty in multidimensional contexts [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2019
When measuring multidimensional poverty it is reasonable to expect that the trade-offs between variable pairs can differ depending on whether the concerned pairs are complements or substitutes. Yet, currently existing approaches based on deprivation count distributions unrealistically assume that all pairs of variables are related in the same way-an ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Incidence, intensity and drivers of multidimensional poverty among rural women in Nigeria

open access: yesHeliyon
Rural women are important agents of development and they are the backbone of achieving sustainable development in any society. However, rural women in Nigeria, like in most developing countries, disproportionately bear the burden of poverty due to poor ...
T. R. Jerumeh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multidimensional Poverty in Benin

open access: yesSocio-Economic Planning Sciences
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Esmeralda Arranhado   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Can Land Transfer Alleviate Multidimensional Relative Poverty in Rural Areas?

open access: yesLand
After eliminating absolute poverty, China’s anti-poverty efforts have shifted towards multidimensional relative poverty. This study uses microdata from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) from 2012 to 2021, applies the Kakwani index to ...
Benjian Wu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revising the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Empirical Insights and Robustness

open access: yesThe Review of Income and Wealth, 2022
The global Multidimensional Poverty Index, published annually since 2010, captures acute multidimensional poverty in the developing world. In 2018, five of its ten indicators were revised with the purpose of aligning the index to the Sustainable ...
S. Alkire   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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