This article concerns the need to define poverty in a way to be relevant to the context it is to refer, to be … socioeconomic situations and analyses the two approaches to poverty - basic needs and income (or poverty line) - in what concerns … their advantages and shortcomings. It highlights how perverse the generalization of the use of the poverty line approach can …

interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …