This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty …

model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy … incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context are only possible in the case wherein … poverty eradication. This result suggest the possibility of taxing extranormal rents extracted by firms with market power and …

cost approach. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in the context of poverty and inequality analysis and it is …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …