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

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aggregation exercises; properties of poverty indices; some specific poverty measures; the problem of plurality and unambiguous …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …