addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be …We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on … decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify whether the …

based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves …We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … can be decomposed simply as sums of targeting dominance curves and allocation dominance ones, and can serve to verify …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin". …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …

changes in food expenditures and prices and simulate the welfare losses from food price changes across poverty definitions. We … according to poverty status. On average, the percentage of total income needed to avoid a loss in economic welfare of poor … poverty, objective and subjective. We evaluate the differential responses of poor households vs. non-poor households to …

effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using … "anchored" poverty lines and distribution-sensitive poverty indices are employed the level of poverty rises to incredibly high … levels. When the poverty lines used are "relative", the poverty rate does not change substantially but when distribution …