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 …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …

the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the redistributive effectiveness of welfare … of financial need among the elderly – a segment of society that is at a relatively high risk of income poverty – also … of these findings for anti-poverty and redistributive policies …

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide … simply added together the ranks on different measurement scales, we present a much more sophisticated approach, with the …