A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz … curve); real-valued indices of inequality; properties of inequality indices; some specific inequality measures; and the …