income, financial security, economic optimism, satisfaction with living standards and health services, social capital … different extents along the income distribution and across generations and space. The decline in subjective well-being since …

Simple welfare indices such as mean income are ubiquitous but not distribution sensitive. In contrast, existing … individual incomes must be multiplied to attain a given reference level of income. This new index is subgroup decomposable with … can be used as distribution sensitive poverty measures and as inequality measures, with the same simple intuitive units …

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

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the … poverty and welfare. …

associated with responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Results show that isolation is associated with a … significant reduction in subjective assessments of income and consumption adequacy, even after controlling for consumption … are already relatively close to markets. These findings suggest that welfare assessments based on monetary income and …

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 …

estimated using pooled data for a group of low-income countries) that links the incidence of poverty to inflation, the literacy … 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 …

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