This paper gives an overview of the way the issue of poverty measurement is typically addressed in economics. After … having briefly defined what is meant by poverty in economics, I examine successively the unidimensional approach to poverty … income. Particular emphasis is placed on those properties of the poverty measures, that are deemed reasonable, and on their …

The objective of this article is to propose a reappraisal of the phenomenon of poverty in Soviet Union by integrating … it proposes a broader framework to evaluate wellbeing and poverty. The idea developed is that freedom of choice is an …

investigates the impact of some family events and changes in the job market situation on poverty exits and entries. The analysis … equivalent income. Five years poverty incidence is found to be 31%, that is twice as larger as one year incidence. One third of … poor households exit from poverty in the year after while 6% of non-poor fall into. Labour income has a major contribution …

, as a micro-level institution, it fosters productivity in order to reduce poverty. The concepts of institutions …, productivity and poverty are reviewed to establish a framework of analysis, where institutions are linked to productivity and … poverty. This framework is applied to a comedor the author visited in 2001 and 2003. Through the diversity and intensity of …