Table 2 Key themes on multi-dimensional poverty research.

From: Multi-dimensional poverty: a bibliometric analysis and content co-occurrence literature review

Cluster

Most frequent terms (occurrences)

Most relevant terms (normalised citations)

Sample research articles

Green

Measuring multi-dimensional poverty

Measure

Inequality

Distribution

Framework

Literature

Methodology

Measurement

Context

Case

Application

Multi-dimensional inequality (3.9723)

Foster (2.9319)

Alkire (2.8158)

Multi-dimensional poverty measurement (2.5836)

Application (1.2216)

Poverty measurement (1.1793)

Distribution (1.1723)

Weight (1.151)

Multi-dimensional poverty measure (1.0623)

Measurement (1.0254)

Alkire et al. (2023)

Amornbunchornvej et al. (2023)

Yellow

Determinants of multi-dimensional poverty

Education

Standard

Child

Incidence

Rural area

India

Intensity

Determinant

Water

Housing

Sanitation (4.4547)

Nutrition (3.0487)

Water (2.81)

Child poverty (2.0575)

Child (1.077)

Rural area (0.9986)

Urban area (0.9516)

Living (0.8518)

Housing (0.7224)

India (0.6228)

Agyire-Tettey et al. (2021)

Shah and Debnath (2022)

Blue

Effects of multi-dimensional poverty

Relationship

Individual

Age

Outcome

Life

Intervention

Risk

Community

Woman

Association

Participant (3.2556)

Covid (2.0038)

Association (1.9357)

Self (1.5785)

Prevalence (1.5113)

Age (1.5045)

Adult (1.3749)

Colombia (1.3588)

South Africa (1.2873)

Gender (1.2311)

Trani et al. (2022)

Nozaki and Oshio (2016)

Red

Fighting multi-dimensional poverty

Model

Effect

Impact

MPI

China

Role

Strategy

Poverty reduction

Government

Trend

China (1.7353)

Poverty alleviation (1.6635)

Rural household (1.4345)

Poverty reduction (1.1949)

Province (1.1599)

Village (1.1499)

Basis (0.8602)

Pakistan (0.8293)

Multi-dimensional poverty (0.6952)

Government (0.6734)

Assaye et al. (2022)

Wang et al. (2024)