It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

This paper is about the relationship among poverty, inequality and economic growth. It makes an analysis using income … stress the importance of work income in determining the levels of inequality and poverty as a mean to traduce the results of …

This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by … research on family dynamics.New Zealand adult and child poverty transitions are compared. Child poverty transitions in New … similar current income measure of poverty is available. The frequency of poverty “trigger events” in New Zealand and their …

This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they … satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case … of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this paper postulates that fuzzy version of poverty measures will not …