This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …

This paper explores the link between poverty and inequality through an analysis of the poverty impact of changes in … empirical linkages between poverty, growth and inequality. It might also help design policies to improve both equity and welfare … as the choice of inequality and poverty aversion parameters, and that of the poverty line). The elasticities are also …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such … as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …

yearly consumption of more than $1,288 necessarily increase the value ofhumanity; the same conclusion applies to Sub …-Saharan Africa if and only if we are willing to make that same judgement for lives with any level of per capita yearly consumption …

UNDP. Unlike most of its predecessors, UNDP's Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) succeeds in taking into account both the … dimensions. This is important since there are good reasons to think of multidimensional poverty as more than just the sum of … poverty across various dimensions of well-being. The MPI suffers, however, from a few unattractive features that need to be …

consumption of more than $1,248 necessarily increase social welfare; the same conclusion applies to Sub-Saharan Africa if and only … if we are willing to make that same judgement for lives with any level of per capita yearly consumption above $147 …

consumption of more than $1,248 necessarily increase social welfare; the same conclusion applies to Sub-Saharan Africa if and only … if we are willing to make that same judgment for lives with any level of per capita yearly consumption above $147 …

consumption of more than $1,248 necessarily increase social welfare; the same conclusion applies to Sub-Saharan Africa if and only … if we are willing to make that same judgement for lives with any level of per capita yearly consumption above $147 …