Poverty indicators are generally identified on the basis of household consumption expenditure data drawn from … generating poverty indicators and profiles that incorporate local perspectives on poverty. More specifically, on the basis of … participatory wealth rankings, we identify covariates that could serve as poverty indicators. Furthermore, we check the performance …

This paper evaluates consumption-based poverty in the United States using Consumer Expenditure Survey data. The poverty … (Christensen et al., 1975) is used to replicate and extend Slesnick’s (1993) measures of poverty into the late 1990s. Consumption …-based poverty analysis is extended by computing Sen (1976) indexes, which provide more complete measures of poverty than simple …

In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity that shows an explicit …