The standard theory of anti - poverty targeting assumes individual incomes cannot be observed, but statistical properties of income distribution in broadly defined groups are known. "Indicator targeting" rules are then derived for the forms of transfers conditioned on group membership of...

August 1995 - In urban areas of Côte d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital - especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned - matters most. Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend...

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level. Written by leading authorities in the fields of...

Measuring Multi-dimensional Well-being and Deprivation with Discrete Ordinal Data -- Feasible Shared Destiny Risk Distributions -- Fuzzy Inequality Ranking Relations and their Crisp Approximations -- On pro-middle Class Growth -- Inequalities and Identities -- A Generalization of the Theil...