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 …

The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …

The measurement of poverty intensity we use was initially advocated by Sen (1976), and modified recently by Shorrocks … Shorrocls, we refer henceforth to the SSR index. Section 2 of this article begins by discussing the SST index of poverty … intensity and its decomposition into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor and the overall Gini index …

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

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 …

This paper proposes a new and unified framework for the Sen and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon indices of poverty intensity, which …