When poverty is viewed as a matter of degree, i.e. as a fuzzy measure, two additional aspects are introduced into the analysis compared with the conventional poor/non-poor dichotomous approach: (i) the choice of membership functions i.e. quantitative specification of individuals' or households'...

Il presente lavoro costituisce un aggiornamento, per quanto riguarda i soli impatti economici, di una nostra precedente ricerca cofinanziata dalla Regione Toscana e pubblicata nel volume curato da Cheli e Luzzati (2010) La Solvay in Val di Cecina. Ricadute socio-economiche e ambientali di una...

Income based measures are inadequate for studying poverty as a state of hardship in living conditions. Nevertheless, research on poverty dynamics seems to remain based on income alone. Moreover, spells usually replace individuals or households as units of analysis leading to a concentration on...

Early efforts to endogenize consumption and hence to model the inter-relationships between production structures and income distribution via multiplier models are reviewed in this paper. It is suggested that, unlike the multipliers in Pyatt et al. (1973), the so-called Miyazawa multipliers...

A model of the household in which production and consumption activities are not separable is developed in order to provide micro-economic foundations for an alternative to the standard approach to poverty analysis. The alternative suggests that socio-economic groups and their respective...