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

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. …

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 …

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 …

Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable … income and poverty. This implies that high-income people are more likely to benefit from economic growth, especially in …

relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …

effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer …The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential … understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is important for effective targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …