measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate …

This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the adult equivalence scale and the unit of …

knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and …We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …

Reference budgets could play an important role in the work of measuring poverty and assessing income adequacy, and in …

poverty measures. We focus on the United Nations Development Program approach to those issues, in particular regarding the … human development index and the multidimensional poverty index. …

This paper is devoted to the discussion of the measurement of human development and poverty, especially in United … indices over the last two decades, focusing on the well-known Human Development Index (HDI) and the poverty indices. We then …

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … choices in the measurement of poverty affect the empirical findings regarding the evolution of poverty between 2005 and 2009 …