poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … the proxy-means-tested benefits are the most effective in reducing the poverty gap index, a simple categorical benefit is …

social protection, which can have a potentially significant impact on reducing poverty and vulnerability when implemented …

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first … number one Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations—halving the incidence of income poverty by the year 2015. …

The turn to the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative (Q-Squared) methods in the analysis of poverty is a welcome … that there are important differences between approaches to poverty which operate at the levels of epistemology and … criteria, and the conception/dimension of poverty adopted and interpersonal comparisons of well-being. …