Multidimensional Fuzzy Poverty and Pro-Poor Growth Measures in non-monetary Dimensions in Egypt between 1995 and 2005

International audienceThe main goal of this paper is to adopt a multidimensional approach to poverty that goes 13 beyond focusing on a unidimensional measure of income or expenditure when attempting to ascertain the main aspects of the living conditions of households. In order to obtain 15 multidimensional poverty measures the paper uses an approach based on fuzzy sets. This methodology is applied to data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for the 17 years 1995 and 2005 in order to obtain an aggregated index of the Standard of Living for each household. The evolution of the Standard of Living of households between 1995 19 and 2005 as well as the uneven progress registered in the index of education as assessed by Egyptian HDR (2008) lead us to investigate the impact of non- income growth on 21 poverty. Thus, following the study of Grosse et al. (2008), extended growth incidence curves (Ravallion and Chen, 2003) are applied to the index of the Standard of Living 23 and to education in order to assess if progress has been biased in favour of the poor