We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …

measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

investigate properties of poverty indices.The method we propose is to exploit credible distributional assumptions to …: generateadditional properties for poverty indices; relate the latters to the incidenceof poverty and to an inequality index; enrich the … sensibility analysis of povertyindices; derive new families of relative poverty lines...derived. …

We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …

and incomes by using parametric formulae of poverty and inequality measures. We propose statistical indicators for the … levels, variabilities, and correlation of prices and incomes. The roles of price and income variabilities for poverty and …

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We … propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

contrast, the differences in poverty measures caused by this deflation can be considerable, for chronic as well as transient or … seasonal poverty indicators. Thus, poverty monitoring and anti-poverty targeting can be badly affected by inaccurate deflation … of living standard data. Moreover, when measuring seasonal poverty, the deflation based on regional prices instead of …

contrast, the differences in poverty measures caused by this deflation can be considerable, for chronic as well as transient or … seasonal poverty indicators. Thus, poverty monitoring and anti-poverty targeting can be badly affected by inaccurate deflation … of living standard data. Moreover, when measuring seasonal poverty, the deflation based on regional prices instead of …

Using panel data from Rwanda, we estimate seasonal transient and chronic poverty indices, for different poverty lines …, poverty indicators, equivalence scales, and with and without corrections for price variability and for the sampling scheme. We … also estimate sampling standard errors for the poverty indices. The worst poverty crises occur after the dry season at the …

poverty indicators may be the consequence of price differences rather than of differences in living standards across … households and seasons. With exogenous poverty lines, we show how the directions of effects of accounting for price variability … can be theoretically established for popular poverty indices. With endogenous poverty lines, using data from Rwanda, we …