addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US$1 a day) by 0.2 percent and lower moderate poverty … poverty while South Asia-where half of the world's poor reside-experiences an increase in extreme poverty incidence due to …

This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an "amalgam poverty line", which is a … weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean … or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty …

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …