This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …

This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …

This paper extends the previous literature on the ethical links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare and … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be intepreted …

as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …