Using French data, we show that ELIE performs rather weakly when it comes to addressing the issue of poverty. Yet …, eliminating poverty is also a valid normative property of any redistribution mechanism. We suggest combining ELIE with another … redistributive solution aimed specifically at alleviating poverty: the personal allowance mechanism (Leroux, 2004 and 2007). We argue …

The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … case of multiplicative poverty games for which indices are non additively decomposable in order to capture contributions of … sub-indices, which are multiplicatively connected with, as in the Sen Shorrocks-Thon poverty index. We finally show in the …

The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …

is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …