Journal Special Issue

• Inequality
• child malnutrition
• Women's empowerment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

• Economic inequality
• Multidimensional poverty
• Inequality and Well-being

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

• Living conditions
• Multidimensional poverty
• Wellbeing

Working Paper

For years, the international development community has been considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, which takes into account not only income or consumption of the poor, but also their access to basic needs (education, health, etc.) and...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Poverty analysis
• Household survey

Working Paper

We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Children
• Child wellbeing

Working Paper

This paper provides practical tests for the robustness of multidimensional comparisons of well-being. Focussing on counting-type multidimensional poverty measures, I draw on the properties of positive Boolean threshold functions to prove that the...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Pointwise dominance
• Mozambique

Working Paper

We here use five rounds of Afrobarometer data covering more than 100,000 individuals over the 2004-2016 period to explore the link between self-assessed measures of living conditions and objective measures of individual well-being (access to basic...

• Living conditions
• Multidimensional poverty
• Wellbeing

Journal Article

We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3% can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces. We...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Children
• Child wellbeing

Journal Article

Mozambique experienced important reductions in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit, an armed insurgency stroke in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, and the country started suffering from a hidden debt crisis...

• First-order dominance
• Mozambique
• Multidimensional poverty

Journal Article

In the widely-used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role in identifying who is multidimensionally poor. This...

• Boolean functions
• Composite indexes
• Multidimensional poverty

Working Paper

Mozambique experienced important reduction in the poverty rate until recently, before two major natural disasters hit and the country started suffering from a hidden debt scandal with associated economic slowdown. As the last available national...

• First-order dominance
• Mozambique
• Multidimensional poverty

Working Paper

In the widely used class of multidimensional poverty measures introduced by Alkire and Foster (2011), dimension-specific weights combined with a single cut-off parameter play a fundamental role in identifying who is multidimensionally poor. This...

• Boolean functions
• Composite indexes
• Multidimensional poverty

Working Paper

The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and...

• First-order dominance
• Multidimensional poverty
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Brief

• Poverty
• Multidimensional poverty
• Household survey

Working Paper

In this study we analyse the evolution of deprivation indicators and of a multidimensional poverty index using Mozambican census data for 1997 and 2007. We analyse deprivation levels according to eight different indicators reflecting housing...

• Multidimensional poverty
• Deprivation
• Mozambique