The aim of this contribution is to present the several steps needed in order to evaluate multidimensional poverty … a measure of multidimensional well-being and evaluates the incidence of the multidimensional poverty, based on data …

the poverty and the household size in developing countries, the present research, supported by data from the Burkina Faso … household survey of 1994-95, suggests a fragile correlation. Firstly, one shows that Foster-Greer-Thorbecke's poverty index … between poverty and gender. On the one hand, the poverty index increase in households managed by women, and, on the other hand …

To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

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 …

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 …

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 …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …