This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …

field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus-axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in …

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 …

each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall … in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in …

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

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 …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …