This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

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