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Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
(Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2013-03)
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium ...
Why Assist People Living in Poverty? : The ethics of poverty reduction
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016-11)
International discussion and debate on poverty and poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries has been deservedly dominated by a focus on poverty trends and by concerns over the relative effectiveness of ...
Urban poverty and habitat precariousness in the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2011-09-06)
Focuses on urban poverty in current and former British territories. Analyzes conditions such as: housing, sanitation, land titles, water, public services, in order to evlaute poverty conditions and precariousness in Caribbean ...
Poverty dynamics in Nairobi's slums; Testing for state dependence and heterogeneity effects
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2022)
Growth and Poverty Revisited from a Multidimensional Perspective
(Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2016-09)
The actual impact of economic growth on poverty reduction is of fundamental importance to the development agenda, especially in view of the Sustainable Development Goals. So far, studies have focused on income poverty. ...
On the interaction between focus and distributional properties in multidimensional poverty measurement
(Springer Netherlands, 2019-04-10)
In the multidimensional poverty measurement literature, most measures satisfy the deprivation focus property, which means that they disregard any improvement in non-deprived achievements. Such measures cannot satisfy strong ...
Which way out of poverty? the human capital versus human capabilities approaches
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-06)
Poverty is a global issue that affects people in different ways. The purpose of this article is to explore the two main theories that address poverty and the potential for overcoming it, which are the human capital and ...
New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
(ECLAC, 2003-08)
The overall aim of this paper is to outline the major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The paper is divided into three main sections. Section one reviews the ways ...
Poverty
(Springer, 2016)
This entry focuses on the poor or indigent, that is, those persons living in highly adverse conditions who cannot meet their basic needs. The article considers our fellow citizens, as well as those living in remote countries. ...