stochastic dominance framework. The key advantage is that the assessment as to whether pricing or price cap reforms are poverty …

To better understand the geographic determinants of poverty in Albania, this article proposes a methodology similar to … poverty levels. …

A method is proposed to provide robust poverty comparisons and robust evaluations of marginal policy reforms under …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and … suggest that migrants do better than non-migrants for poverty, but worse for housing quality, none of the two group is found …

poverty which are robust to the assumptions made about the economies of scale within households, the techniques could be … fuel poverty among households with and without access to electricity, and we assess whether access to electricity for those … who do not have access currently would eliminate the observed difference in fuel poverty between the two groups of …

poverty in Canada. …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …