the "Mortality Paradox": the worse the survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We show … that the extent to which FGT measures (Foster Greer Thorbecke 1984) underestimate old-age poverty under income …-differentiated mortality depends on whether the prematurely dead would have, in case of survival, suffered from a more severe poverty than the …

Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures reflect not only the "true" poverty, but, also, the … survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We examine several solutions to avoid that paradox. We … the "hidden" poverty (premature death), we use, as a fictitious income, the welfare-neutral income, making indifferent …