This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …

poverty lines. We then provide statistical procedures that rely on the use of sample data to infer whether growth has been pro …

In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also … poverty and social exclusion. The Committee published a series of recommendations in 2009 that more or less amount to a …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter value that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion …. The indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data finds that the …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on … Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be … assessment of program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as to differences in …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality. They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …