addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

This paper estimates the number of poor in various countries in Asia by applying an "amalgam poverty line", which is a … weighted average of an absolute poverty line (such as $1.25 per day or $1.45 per day) and a reference income (such as the mean … or the median income). The number of poor is computed under various values of the weight applied to the absolute poverty …

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

Given a poverty line, a person who is non-poor (poor) currently may not be treated as non-poor (poor) in a vulnerable … situation. This paper looks at the impact of vulnerability on the poverty line. The poverty line is adjusted in the presence of … vulnerability such that the utility of a person at the current poverty line and that at the adjusted poverty line become identical …