The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in the population. It demonstrates the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the choice of poverty lines, and for the measurement...

This paper proposes a new single parameter family of (relative) inequality measures possessing the usual properties. Though the inequality orderings they imply are well-known, the measures are of interest since they allow to decompose inequality. When the population is divided into subgroups...