The design of a poverty measure involves the selection of a set of parameters and poverty figures. In most cases the … measures are estimated from sample surveys. This raises the question of how conclusive particular poverty comparisons are … shows how to apply dominance and rank robustness tests to assess comparisons as poverty cutoffs and other parameters changes …

Empirical applications of poverty measurement often have to deal with a stochastic weighting variable such as household … distributions of the decomposable curves. The poverty line is allowed to depend on the income distribution. It is shown how the … results can be used to test hypotheses concerning changes in poverty. The inference procedures are briefly illustrated using …

Kakwani (Econometrica, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 437-446 (1980)) introduced the S-Gini poverty indices as a generalization of … Sen's poverty index. I propose a sample estimator for the indices and establish its asymptotic normality under weak … conditions. An explicit variance formula is presented. The poverty line is allowed to depend on the income distribution function …

The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Common … statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically … significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized that when the poverty line is calculated from sample survey data …