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. -- Poverty measures ; differences in needs ; principle of transfers …The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U … of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

A new basis for an international poverty measurement is proposed based on linear programming for specifying the least … information. The new approach implies much more poverty than the World Bank's, especially in Asia. …

Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …

central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific …