Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

integrate various strands of literature on status effects. -- inequality ; inter-temporal consumer choice ; utility ; poverty …In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …