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 … dominance is used in poverty comparisons. Sensitivity of the measures and of the observed trends to the equivalence scale used …

positive association between a household's poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in …

The standard approach to the study of poverty assumes the existence of an ideal variable that captures the extent of … deprivation. In this paper we postulate that poverty is involved with many dimensions. We use a latent variable framework to …

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 …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

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 …