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 …

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ration among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ration among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …