Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

One of the methods to estimate the poverty level inside a given population is based on how to define the poverty line … values. Each person having his income under the poverty threshold will be considered to be poor. In the literature we … distinguish at least three approaches: to evaluate the absolute poverty line, to find a relative poverty threshold depending on …

One of the methods to estimate the poverty level inside a given population is based on how to define the poverty line … values. Each person having his income under the poverty threshold will be considered to be poor. In the literature we … distinguish at least three approaches: to evaluate the absolute poverty line, to find a relative poverty threshold depending on …

This article conceives poverty in terms of the consumption of essential food, makes use of a new deprivation (or … poverty) function, and examines the effects of changes in the mean and the variance of the income distribution on poverty …, assuming a log-normal income distribution. The presence of a saturation level of consumption can be treated as a poverty …

This article describes the main trends in income distribution and poverty in Argentina and discusses their relationship …

generations. There is a greater social mobility and less poverty in the younger generations. The overall trends "are going well … be changed in order to take into account these findings. The author believes that social policy must focus on poverty and … lives (during an episode of poverty) and not forever (because these people are not intrinsically poor). Consequently, the …

Forecasting poverty in the future is mostly a matter of forecasting economic growth. The objective of the study is to … examine the inter-temporal link between growth and poverty in Pakistan, over the next 25years period i.e., from the years 2011 … test the temporal causality among poverty measures (i.e., head count ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap), growth …

, simultaneously, changes in the distribution of income. This study tries to capture how these changes affected poverty levels across … major states in India. Total change in poverty is decomposed into the changes due to a rise in the mean income level and due … poverty though changes in the distribution of income which adversely affected the poor. …

from an agricultural to an industrial economy as well as improved quality of life and income distribution with low poverty …