-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 …

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

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

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at … understand the relationships while accounting for the nature of growth. Moreover, the poverty elasticity of output growth was … estimated using regional-level data in 2003, 2006, and 2009. We learned that while the rate of growth matters a lot in poverty …

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 …