demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …