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 …

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 …

countries' poverty profiles and inequality levels can be heavily influenced by how such payments are taken into account. This …

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 …

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 …

theoretical advances in poverty measurement. In turn, I argue than an ideal measure of poverty should: a) measure comparative …Despite serious methodological problems, quantitative studies of poverty by U.S. sociologists predominantly rely on the … historical variation effectively; b) be relative rather than absolute; c) conceptualize poverty as social exclusion; d) integrate …

Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An … based on Luxembourg Income Study data for seventeen countries covering various years between 1969 and 1997. Poverty is …

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 …