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A systematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological introduction to multi-dimensional poverty measurement and analysis. It provides a lucid overview of the problems that a range of multidimensional techniques can address and sets out a synthetic introduction of counting and axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement.

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error. It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. It also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on 'estimation in practice', a series of eleven case studies where the code streams are operationalized, a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.

This book uses welfare theoretic and descriptive approaches to present recent advances in the study of inequality, polarization and poverty. It is filled with graphs, charts, and non-technical explanations of technical terms and mathematical operations.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at the local level, as well as the most recent multidimensional methods of the dynamics of poverty.

1.4 Model-assisted and Model-based Methods Used for the Estimation of Poverty Indicators: a Short Review -- 1.4.1 Model-assisted Methods -- 1.4.2 Model-based Methods -- References -- Part I Definition of Indicators and Data Collection and Integration Methods -- Chapter 2 Regional and Local Poverty Measures -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Poverty -- Dilemmas of Definition -- 2.3 Appropriate Indicators of Poverty and Social Exclusion at Regional and Local Levels -- 2.3.1 Adaptation to the Regional Level -- 2.4 Multidimensional Measures of Poverty.

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over the last thirty to forty years? We draw attention to developments under seven headings: changes in the extent of inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and 'inequality' and the rise of multidimensional approaches, the use of longitudinal perspectives, an increase in availability of and access to data, developments in analytical methods of measurement, and developments in modelling.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Methods of Poverty Analysis -- 2.1 Conceptual Approaches to Measuring 'Well-Being' -- 2.2 Using Household Surveys for Welfare Measurement -- Survey Design -- Goods Coverage and Valuation -- Variability and the Time Period of Measurement -- Comparisons across Households at Similar Consumption Levels -- 2.3 Some Alternative Measures -- Real Consumption per Equivalent Adult -- Nutritional Indicators -- Anthropological Methods -- Summary -- 2.4 Poverty Lines -- 'Absolute' versus 'Relative' Poverty -- Basic Needs Poverty Lines -- Relative Poverty Lines -- Subjective Poverty Lines -- Dual Poverty Lines -- Summary -- 2.5 Adding Up Poverty -- Poverty Measures -- Measurement Errors -- Estimation -- Hypothesis Testing -- Summary -- 2.6 Decompositions -- Poverty Profiles -- Decomposing a Change in Poverty: Growth and Redistribution Components -- The Sectoral Decomposition of a Change in Poverty -- 2.7 The Robustness of Ordinal Poverty Comparisons -- A Single Measure of Standard of Living -- More than One Dimension -- Summary -- 3. Putting Theory into Practice -- 3.1 How Well Can the Prevalence of Poverty in a Country be Predicted Without a Household Survey? -- 3.2 How Well do Cross-Sectional Indicators Identify the Long-Term Poor? -- 3.3 Which Sector or Region has More Poverty? -- Urban-Rural Poverty Lines in Indonesia -- Examples of More Detailed Sectoral and Regional Poverty Profiles -- 3.4 How Reliable are Assessments of Progress in Poverty Reduction? -- Bangladesh in the 1980s -- Indonesia in the 1980s -- 3.5 What is the Relative Importance of Growth versus Redistribution? -- 3.6 How Important are Different Sectors to Changes in Poverty? -- 3.7 How do Price Changes Affect the Poor? -- Rice Prices and Poverty in Indonesia

Poverty and inequality persist in many dimensions in the developing world. In order to understand the determinants of poverty and its distribution between and within countries, it is necessary to know its dimensions and the channels through which poverty and inequality affect human well-being. This book analyzes the spatial disparities of the outcomes and determinants of poverty, the interdependencies of dimensions of poverty, the distribution of progress in human development over the population and the dynamics of poverty risk over time. The study takes into account the global spread of poverty. Based on cross-country comparisons of countries from Africa, Latin America, and South Asia, this study does not only consider on average outcomes and determinants of different indicators of human well-being, but also examines their distribution between and within countries.

"This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy perscriptions. In particular it highlights the World Bank's dollar-a-day measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes."--Publisher's website

Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for a world free of poverty in 2030. Over the last decades, the world has made much progress in reducing poverty. However, COVID-19 has shown that these gains can be reversed when households are affected by shocks – and puts at risk the goal to end poverty by 2030. This is particularly true for households in fragile countries, which are becoming hotspots of poverty, where about two thirds of the poor are projected to live in 2030. To keep the goal of eradicating poverty alive, we need to better understand poverty especially in the context of...