This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in …' rather than 'rightist' or 'leftist' inequality measures, lead to a picture of inequality in the distribution of consumption … expenditure widening over time, which is at odds with the impression of more or less unchanging inequality conveyed in some of the …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …. Complications arising from both the poverty and inequality rankings of distributions when the aggregate size of the population is … and ethical appeal, there are problems involved in variable population comparisons of poverty and inequality which deserve …