Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and …

maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute …

maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute …

This paper extends the previous literature on the ethical links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare and … inequality. We show inter alia, how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be intepreted …

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the … the set of all feasible thresholds, accounting for the "cost in terms of welfare" of achieving these rights. We apply the …

empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare …This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … income-component inequality and in between -an within- group inequality. This can help shed light on the theoretical and …

This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such …