The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

by groups and income sources. The multi-decomposition of the poverty growth yields respectively: the growth rate of the … poverty incidence (poverty rate) decomposed by groups, the growth rate of the poverty depth (poverty gap ratios) decomposed by …-decomposition is not unique. It is mainly dependent on poverty lines defined on the space of income sources. An application to …

analyze the impacts on poverty brought on by changes in the food subsidy system in Egypt. The Egypt Integrated Household … alleviating poverty. …

Cette recherche étend l’approche de Dagum C. et Costa M. [“Analysis and Measurement of Poverty. Univariate and … Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty, Springer Verlag, Germany, p. 221-271, 2004]. Nous développons un modèle …

In 1990, Cerioli and Zani introduced an operational multivariate method to analyse and measure poverty, aiming at … incorporating several dimensions of poverty. As Dagum and Costa [2004] showed, this study applies the fuzzy set theoretic approach … capability. The literature offers many ways to deal with inequalities in poverty. The most common approach is those of Amartya …

Given the multiplicative decomposition of the Sen index into three commonly used poverty statistics – the poverty rate … (poverty incidence), poverty gap ratio (poverty depth) and 1 plus the Gini index of poverty gap ratios of the poor (inequality … of poverty) – the index becomes much easier to use and to interpret for economists, policy analysts and decision makers …