We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. Using household survey data from eighteen European countries in …

,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …

,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …

Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …