This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to … poverty into contribution of growth and a contribution due to the redistribution, according to the decomposition approaches … (2001), and the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate, suggested by Kakwani and Son (2002), are applied to assess the degree of pro …

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 …

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 …

. 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%. …

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. …

indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …