When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence … scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate … individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A different choice of poverty line, poverty index or equivalent scale can …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. …

This paper is concerned with the measurement of the relative poverty of people in different age groups in developing … countries. In many instances it is useful to know, for example, whether a higher fraction of children are in poverty than are … adults. However, it is difficult to make even simple poverty comparisons of this sort. A perennial difficulty is the passage …

standards and for using it to measure poverty and inequality. It goes on to discuss the principal uses to which consumption data …

problems with the current $1-a-day poverty counts, makes some suggestions for improvement, and identifies issues that need … further research. World poverty numbers are calculated in two stages. At the first, or international stage, a world poverty … line is set and used to derive comparable poverty lines for each country. At the second, or domestic stage, the poverty …

constructed from survey data have been used to measure poverty, to analyse changes in living standards, over time, and to assess …