indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

This paper examines the determinants of poverty intensity in US states and Canadian provinces in 1994 and 1997 …. Although most Canadian provinces had lower poverty than US states in 1994, by 1997 Canadian distinctiveness had greatly … poverty intensity of trade exposure, unemployment, social assistance generosity and unemployment insurance benefits. …

The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic …

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ration among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …

This paper proposes a new and unified framework for the Sen and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon indices of poverty intensity, which …