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

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 …

no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …

autonomy should be addressed - poverty, ill health and geographical inequality - because they place significant restrictions on …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

perspective; the distributional data in EU-SILC are necessary to measure income poverty. The progress, or lack of progress, in … reducing income poverty has to be seen in relation to what is happening to the level of real incomes. We begin with the EU …-SILC-based headline at-risk-of-poverty indicator, and then consider its relation to the level of household real income as presented in the …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government.s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …