improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing transfer program reforms. The methods are based on … Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves can be … assessment of program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as to differences in …

for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality. They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

We propose simple graphical methods to identify poverty-reducing marginal reforms of transfer programs. The methods are … based on Program Dominance curves that display cumulative program benefits weighted by powers of poverty gaps. These curves … whether the assessment of marginal program reforms is sensitive to the choice of poverty lines and poverty measures as well as …