In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

. The fourth discusses some problems of inefficiency in modern industrialised societies, and the consequences on the welfare …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty,with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its …

that immigrant status and ethnic origin may help to explain to some degree the continuing existence of poverty in Norway … discuss the more crucial question of whether or not this rather high incidence of poverty among immigrants persists even after …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …

. Our framework provides complete ranking of any set of distributions and money metric interpretation of the social welfare … two empirical applications; the first assesses the welfare implications of changes in household income distributions over … the business cycle, while the second performs a social welfare comparison of the actual and counterfactual outcome …