revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

well-known inequality indices. The same cannot be said, in respect of poverty indices, for the second-order stochastic … dominance criterion for poverty analysis introduced by Atkinson (1987). Indeed, two of the best known poverty indices, the head … provides a more comprehensive coverage of poverty indice. By establishing the relationship between welfare and poverty …

This paper discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in Indonesia during a period of substantial economic … poverty using the Demographic and Health Survey. The case of Indonesia suggests that poverty may urbanize but remains largely …

. Using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure of poverty among pensioners, we find that allowing for implicit claim costs … incurred by benefit recipients raises the measured degree of poverty by not more than 16%. …

. Using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measure of poverty among pensioners, we find that allowing for implicit claim costs … incurred by benefit recipients raises the measured degree of poverty by not more than 13%. …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …