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 …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

of schooling and gross domestic regional product, but positively associated with the income Gini index, poverty incidence …, and poverty gap. …

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 …

Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple …-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty and well-being. Stochastic dominance approaches are used to … contrast uni-dimensional and multidimensional poverty over health and assets. The results show that children with the lowest …

(ESAM I and ESAM II) and the Survey of Poverty Monitoring in Senegal (ESPS). The analysis was carried out using four tools … and growth rate equivalent to poverty. We find that growth was absolute pro-poor and not relative pro-poor in Senegal from …

This study aims to determine patterns of poverty and inequality in small areas and household characteristics related to …