-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …

The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …

no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …

at a median position, while the index of relative poverty is comparatively high. Among the main countries of the euro …

people and tenants. Overall inequality in wealth distribution has increased. Poverty indicators based on income and wealth …, had sufficient financial asset to survive at the poverty line for barely six months. This percentage increases to 15 per …

each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this … methodological requirements of this evaluative exercise, and provides the first estimates of inequality and poverty in the enlarged …

measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a re-examination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income … have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … ways in which measures may be relative or absolute. This leads us to propose a new measure, which (a) combines poverty and …