A class of poverty measures is identified, the members of which satisfy strong monotonicity and transfer conditions. These measures are closely related to indices of income inequality based on the notion of a mean-equivalent income. A restriction on the class of admissible measures allows...

Early efforts to endogenize consumption and hence to model the inter-relationships between production structures and income distribution via multiplier models are reviewed in this paper. It is suggested that, unlike the multipliers in Pyatt et al. (1973), the so-called Miyazawa multipliers...

A model of the household in which production and consumption activities are not separable is developed in order to provide micro-economic foundations for an alternative to the standard approach to poverty analysis. The alternative suggests that socio-economic groups and their respective...