In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty … Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its estimate and understanding its sources. Our contribution honours Gangopadhyay … poverty incidence. We highlight how far it can take us, and how it still leaves us far short of understanding much of what …

This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation … coefficients effects when decomposing differences in poverty incidence. The proposed method is implemented for studying differences … in poverty incidence between Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo using Living Standard Measurement Survey …