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

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 …

-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 …

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