This paper adopts a new approach to the measurement of chronic multidimensional poverty. It relies on the counting approach of Alkire and Foster (2011) for the measurement of multidimensional poverty in each time period, ...

This paper adopts a new approach to the measurement of chronic multidimensional poverty. It relies on the counting approach of Alkire and Foster (2011) for the measurement of multidimensional poverty in each time period, ...

In 2020 China eliminated the overall regional poverty and finished the arduous task of solving the problem of absolute poverty. Even though there is an actual lingering problem of relative poverty, the objective risk of ...

China’s Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction Policy is an essential requirement for alleviating poverty and guaranteeing the basic needs of people who live at the bottom of society and are unable to obtain a source of ...

This paper presents empirical results of transitions of poverty measures for Chile, using the 1996 – 2001 – 2006 National Socioeconomic Panel Survey data. We compare the differences between poverty dynamics using the income ...

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 ...