should modify any economic policy aiming for Social Welfare maximisation. Poverty is defined as a state of economic hardship … persistence bring about further information on the causes of poverty and the ways to exit from it or avoid it. Using longitudinal … data on Spanish households, some groups of households are detected as long slayers in poverty after some time in it and …

poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices …Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of … have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an imporrtant commonly used subclass of poverty …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and …. Poverty also rose, despite some growth in mean reported incomes, but its behaviour was more cyclical than that of inequality. …

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. …

funding process when student mobility between schools is limited by land market imperfections, and some aspects of educational …

inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …