, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … theory-based framework designed to provide a coherent evaluation of the distributional impact of local public services. The … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population …

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 …

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 …

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed.In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …