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

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalisation in terms of growing … primarily concerned with the effect that this growing integration has on economic growth and poverty reduction. It assesses the …

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 …

An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups …: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber … -- Concepts and measurment of vulnerablility to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring the …

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 …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …