Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke … poverty to which its methodology has been applied. We conclude with a selection of prospective research topics. …

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 …