. 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 …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …

for poverty and social indicators. This linkage facilitates the analysis of the impact of various macroeconomic shocks on … a selected set of key social indicators. Poverty analysis is performed by the use of a poverty equation (which is … estimated using pooled data for a group of low-income countries) that links the incidence of poverty to inflation, the literacy …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …

poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …