This paper considers the practical problem of distributing a fixed budget for poverty alleviation to a population whose … poverty status is not directly observable. Some information on the relationship between poverty status and a number of … taking both the concavity of the social welfare function and the entire conditional distribution of poverty status into …

Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …

also at educational and health aspirations.  Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the …Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income.  This finding … analysis to individuals with considerably poorer living conditions, and we expand the analysis to look not only at income but …

-inflation variables such as real income has been given a somewhat passive role, either assuming it exogenous or to have a negligible role … extreme Yugoslavian episode to investigate the role of income.  The analysis suggests that even in extreme hyper-inflation the … monetary variables and real income are simultaneously determined.  The methodology enables a description of the short term …

consistent with a model of quality-quantity of leisure, where individuals substitute quality for quantity as their income rises. …

for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each …