Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen …, lognormality has sometimes been assumed in order to determine analytically the poverty effects of income growth. We show that in a …

We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …

This article conceives poverty in terms of the consumption of essential food, makes use of a new deprivation (or … poverty) function, and examines the effects of changes in the mean and the variance of the income distribution on poverty …, assuming a log-normal income distribution. The presence of a saturation level of consumption can be treated as a poverty …

This article examines inequality and poverty among older people in Japan. It compares Japan with that of a sample of … from labor explain some of the inequality and poverty that is seen in Japan. So, too, do the low rate of take up of social …

Accounting for environmental damage is relevant to how one measures the extent and severity of inequality and poverty … inequality and poverty measures for Brazil and Costa Rica. Unlike Khan, I test for different assumptions regarding the ecological … distribution. Provisional results indicate that inequality and poverty are understated, and that, under certain assumptions, both …

, simultaneously, changes in the distribution of income. This study tries to capture how these changes affected poverty levels across … major states in India. Total change in poverty is decomposed into the changes due to a rise in the mean income level and due … poverty though changes in the distribution of income which adversely affected the poor. …

compared with the household-level at-risk-of-poverty rates defined by the European Commission. The determinants of financial …