a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one's conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …