addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …

The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a …-dependent poverty is higher for the population where all individuals experienced an income fall. Not only they are poor, they also feel …

2010 Census of Population and Housing data has generated information on the poverty status of provinces and districts in … the districts according to their poverty status. It is expected that this paper will contribute to fine-tuning geographic … poverty targeting efforts in Zambia. The rationale is that with the availability of such analysis, it will be possible to make …

measures of poverty and of affluence, focussing on incomes outside a middle class interval. The approach is applied to German …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

This paper proposes a class of decomposable poverty measures. It incorporates ideas of flexible minimum basic … poverty measure can be used in a straightforward manner to derive a metric to evaluate the efficiency of the public transfer …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …