poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

experience a higher degree of income poverty and costs in terms of people’s reduced likelihood of being able to access medical or …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional … GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Specifically, the paper …. Relative poverty seems to have increased in 2012, after remaining broadly unchanged in the previous two years; in 2013 it …). This pattern is more pronounced when poverty is measured against an “anchored” benchmark: the proportion of population …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in the context of … 1964–2011. The regression model encompassing the impact of economic growth and inequality on poverty reflects that a 1 …% increase in income while keeping the distribution constant reduces poverty around 0.162% in rural, 0.256% in urban, 0.471% in …