When measuring poverty over time analysts must choose the value of the income elacticity of the poverty line. The …. Borrowing from the life-style and deprivation approach to poverty various dimensions of poverty and deprivation are identified … and the income elasticity of these items is used as the income elasticity of the poverty line. …

Results from poverty studies are sensitive to the choice f the poverty line. Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic … dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty lines or … which at least give an unambiguous results over a wide range of poverty lines. …

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 …