the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …

investigated countries provide social assistance benefits above the EU near poverty threshold. Social assistance benefit levels …

reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …