This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz …

the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

headcount ratio, using income and expenditure survey microdata. With the poverty line as defined here, approximately half the …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … individual income observations to be reconstructed from any feasible grouping pattern. In contrast to earlier methods, our … algorithm is evaluated first by using household survey records to compare true income observations with their synthetic …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …