Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median … that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the minds of both the government and the public. Especially since it … multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty … measures will be robust under data conta m ination. We investigate both the case where the poverty line is exogenenously fixed …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms. …