Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …