The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different …-targeted provisions and means-tested benefits reduce relative economic poverty in different institutional settings. It is shown that the … poverty alleviation across countries. The study also presents a new method for estimating the anti-poverty effects of separate …

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 …

choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in … empirical work on poverty measurement is clarified. …The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in …

poverty alleviation policies and poverty measurement practices, as well as on different poverty indices and the properties of …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. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

This study challenges the conventional wisdom that elderly, child and overall poverty are divergent. Comparing the … poverty by a significant amount and child poverty by a lesser amount. The elderly were considerably more likely to be poor … Western democracies show that overall and child poverty are very strongly positively correlated, while elderly poverty is …

parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to 'exclusion' or 'relative-deprivation' aversion. We …This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focusing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

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 …

Comparative poverty research flourishes, especially since comparable income data are easily available through the … Luxembourg Income Study. However, a number of methodological pitfalls in comparative poverty research are often overlooked. There … is a vast amount of literature on sensitivity of measured results to the choice of income definitions, poverty lines, and …