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 is measured on a metric scale. However, estimation is not possible, using standard formulas, when the income …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from … 1969 to 2014 from a normative perspective. Second, we conduct a corresponding international comparison between the US and …