-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 …

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 …

each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this … methodological requirements of this evaluative exercise, and provides the first estimates of inequality and poverty in the enlarged …

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper … social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …