International poverty research has increasingly underscored the need to use multidimensional approaches to measure poverty. Largely embraced in Europe and elsewhere, this has not had much impact on the way poverty is measured in the United States. In this paper, I use a comprehensive multidimensional framework including economic well-being, capability, and social inclusion to examine poverty in...

This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in crosscountry comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective appr...

INTRODUCTION It is well known that lower income is associated with poorer health, but poverty has several dimensions other than income. In the current study, we investigated the associations between multidimensional poverty and health variables. METHODS Using micro data obtained from a nationwide population survey in Japan (N = 24,905), we focused on four dimensions of poverty (income, educat...

The concept of multidimensional poverty has risen to prominence among researchers and policymakers. The compelling writings of Amartya Sen, participatory poverty exercises in many countries, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) all draw attention to the multiple deprivations suffered by many of the poor and the interconnections among these deprivations. A key task for research has been t...

The case for an assessment of poverty considering multiple deprivations has been well argued for a long time (e.g. Sen, 2001, 2009). While there is a broad consensus about the multidimensionality of poverty, there is a debate as to whether the multiple indicators of deprivations should be brought together into a composite index or not (e.g. see Ravalion, 2010). On the other hand, it seems that ...

The aim of this special issue is to draw attention to “missing dimensions” of poverty data—dimensions that are of value to poor people, but for which we have scant or no data. Amartya Sen frames development as the process of expanding the freedoms that people value and have reason to value. Although the most widely known measure of human development includes income, longevity and education, man...

The aim of this special issue is to draw attention to ‘missing dimensions’ of poverty data – dimensions that are of value to poor people, but for which we have scant or no data. Amartya Sen frames development as the process of expanding the freedoms that people value and have reason to value. Although the most widely-known measure of human development includes income, longevity, and education, ...

The importance of the "trickle-down" effect of economic growth is a key issue in policy debate regarding tax reform, government expenditures, and efficiency-equity tradeoffs. For this reason, a recent study by Thornton, Agnello, and Link (1978) examining the relationship between poverty and economic growth from 1947 to 1974 deserves careful review. The authors (hereafter TAL) show that the tric...

Draft: please do not cite without permission. When poverty measures reflect the experiences of poor people, then this empowers those working to reduce poverty to do so more effectively and efficiently. The literature on Multidimensional Poverty Measures has surged forward in the last decade. This paper describes the broad directions of change, then presents a new and very simple measurement met...