The main objective of this study is to compute an international poverty threshold based on the food requirement to … provide a caloric based international poverty threshold. Using this methodology, the international poverty line is estimated …

This paper shows how to take into account risk aversion when measuring poverty under income variability. An application … to British panel data suggests that income and poverty comparisons between the self-employed and other groups of … order to account for risk aversion and income variability in the measurement of poverty. …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two group is found …

poverty which are robust to the assumptions made about the economies of scale within households, the techniques could be … fuel poverty among households with and without access to electricity, and we assess whether access to electricity for those … who do not have access currently would eliminate the observed difference in fuel poverty between the two groups of …

slightly negative or weakly positive but generate reductions in poverty at the national level and for rural households. The pro …