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. …