-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 …

exclusion and poverty. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the main measures of over-indebtedness used in the … of over-indebtedness are subsequently compared with the measures of poverty in order to disentangle the relationship …

The paper reviews the theory of the measurement of poverty. The axiomatic theory is described and the axiomatic … properties of poverty indexes are related to assumptions on the functional form of the poverty index function. The notion of … poverty ordering is then introduced and followed by a review of the relations between the poverty orderings than can be …

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 …

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 …

measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a re-examination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income … have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … ways in which measures may be relative or absolute. This leads us to propose a new measure, which (a) combines poverty and …

at a median position, while the index of relative poverty is comparatively high. Among the main countries of the euro …