The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …

measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …, analysis of children’s living standards,state versus federal responsibilities, welfare reform and the emphasis on …

We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …

revealspecific quantiles, particularly those around the poverty line which are mostsusceptible to be vulnerable to shocks to the …

This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … matters for poverty – with the macropicture — that there’s no strong link. We then go on to identify whichhousehold and …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A … financial impact of different life events and provides anindication of how effectively the welfare state cushions people against …

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period …

investigate properties of poverty indices.The method we propose is to exploit credible distributional assumptions to …: generateadditional properties for poverty indices; relate the latters to the incidenceof poverty and to an inequality index; enrich the … sensibility analysis of povertyindices; derive new families of relative poverty lines...derived. …

We derive an explicit formula of the Watts’ poverty index, in terms of parametersof bivariate lognormal distributions … prices and nominal living standards in poverty; interpret the e¤ects on povertyof changes in price distributions; estimate … poverty when only means and variancesof price indices and nominal living standards are known.Using data from peasants in …