The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … Consumption and Income Project (GCIP). They describe the construction of the consumption and income datasets and the evolution of … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of … poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority … of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …