-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …

, single-parent poverty, and old-age poverty – are discussed. The second objective is to consider the adequacy of our framework …

about 4 percentage points in the after-tax poverty rate, which would reach 13.2 per cent in 2010. …

and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … and 2008. Indeed, Canadians experienced a widening of income and wealth inequalities. There have been poverty reductions …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

/M) of National Child Benefit (NCB) rules, isolating the impact of these rules on low-income or poverty rates and gaps in … Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty … 4.6 per cent between 1996 and 1999 because of the introduction of the NCBS. The drop in the poverty gap was even greater …

has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the … poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent income after taxes and transfers, for households headed by a person 65 or … over fell from 28.4 per cent in 1973 to 5.4 per cent in 1997, while the poverty gap or income shortfall below the poverty …