likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke … poverty to which its methodology has been applied. We conclude with a selection of prospective research topics. …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

One of the methods to estimate the poverty level inside a given population is based on how to define the poverty line … values. Each person having his income under the poverty threshold will be considered to be poor. In the literature we … distinguish at least three approaches: to evaluate the absolute poverty line, to find a relative poverty threshold depending on …

One of the methods to estimate the poverty level inside a given population is based on how to define the poverty line … values. Each person having his income under the poverty threshold will be considered to be poor. In the literature we … distinguish at least three approaches: to evaluate the absolute poverty line, to find a relative poverty threshold depending on …