the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … reduction between 2000 and 2007 and this occurred in concomitance with significant increases in private and public transfers to … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country …