Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …

There is growing support for the idea that global income poverty should be assessed with a measure accounting for both … paper studies the implications of requiring that the poverty measure makes a fair and welfare-consistent aggregation of … rule out the use of classical poverty indexes. In particular, the paper finds that the ubiquitoushead-count ratio violates …