This study attempts to introduce a new method to measure relative income poverty. The aim is to find a solution which … will combine information both on the depth of poverty and the quantity of the poor, i.e. the number of people living in … poverty. Furthermore, a yardstick is sought which would be relatively simple and easy to understand, as these properties would …

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in … welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st century the question of poverty is still highly relevant. It remains today … poverty risks have tended to increase from the early 1980s to the present day. We also show that the cross-national variation …

's program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger … self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. This paper is designed to examine … these differences in greater detail. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty, as they relate to …

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 …

antipoverty policy. While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for … to avoid poverty. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS …) database contains the information needed to construct comparable poverty measures for more than 30 nations. It allows …

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

Relative poverty lines such as one-half of median income have been widely used in poverty comparisons. The U ….S. government has also been urged to adopt the notion of relative poverty lines. This paper contributes to the literature by … developing statistical inferences for testing poverty measures with relative poverty lines. The poverty measures we consider are …

poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as … estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic dominance of any order. These curves can be used to determine whether poverty … sampling distribution of the maximal poverty lines (or income censoring thresholds) up to which we may confidently assert that …

This paper begins by asking how poverty in affluent countries should be measured, before examining recent evidence on … poverty intensity and its social significance. Section 1 advocates use of the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity … and introduces the 'Poverty Box' as a summary graphical representation. Recently, poverty intensity has increased in …