A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least cost diet and explicit budgeting for non-food spending. This approach is superior to the World Bank’s '$-a-day' line because it is (1) clearly related to survival and well...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper deals with the average-case-analysis of the number of pivot steps required by the simplex method. It generalizes results of Borgwardt (who worked under the assumpution of the rotation-symmetry-model) for the shadow-vertex-algorithm to so-called cylindric distributions. Simultaneously...</para>

The literature on graphical models and the literature on identification pursue similar goals, but do not use entirely each other's results, because represent them in different languages. To ease the communication between these fields, I translate the most important theorems on identification of...