. This paper proposes a simple new distribution sensitive welfare index with intuitive units: the average factor by which … individual incomes must be multiplied to attain a given reference level of income. This new index is subgroup decomposable with … population weights and satisfies the three main definitions of distribution sensitivity in the literature. Variants on this index …

This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and … Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here …-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important contributor was the growth in labor income …

household being above and below the poverty line. The paper provides an overview of the methods and issues arising in each case …

payments), and explore the impact of healthcare expenditures on household economic status and poverty. Methodologies include (i … incidence and intensity of catastrophic healthcare payments, (iii) examining the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty … headcount and poverty gap measures, and (iv) running sets of country-specific probit regressions to model the relationship …