A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aspects of both congruence and conflict in the relationship amongst poverty, inequality, and welfare. The final substantive …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …Pro Poor Growth has become a central concern to achieve sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries. Despite …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …