The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focusing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to 'exclusion' or 'relative-deprivation' aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as … estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic dominance of any order. These curves can be used to determine whether poverty … sampling distribution of the maximal poverty lines (or income censoring thresholds) up to which we may confidently assert that …

In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also … poverty and social exclusion. The Committee published a series of recommendations in 2009 that more or less amount to a …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

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. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted …