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 …

have shown increasing tendencies in recent decades. However, trends in inequality between indicators of income and … unequal country in the world. The country registered growing equality of happiness despite rising income inequality. Obviously …, the absolute impact of income and happiness inequality at the country level is more important than the relative impact …

have shown increasing tendencies in recent decades. However, trends in inequality between indicators of income and … unequal country in the world. The country registered growing equality of happiness despite rising income inequality. Obviously …, the absolute impact of income and happiness inequality at the country level is more important than the relative impact …

reduction of the poverty and the inequality in Mauritania. Firstly, according to econometric estimations, the per capita … poverty in the two sectors, between 1990 and 1996, of the geographic location, some demographic variables and rate of …,the unconditional group decomposition of the national Gini index suggests that the inequality of the per capita consumption is mainly …