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

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

external capabilities. Despite endeavouring to fight poverty, social policy cannot guarantee the benign external conditions …

recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …

terms of poverty reduction. It also shows that the patterns of income convergence across member states differ across …

welfare losses – combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years – depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life …

examine the impact of natural disasters on Indonesian household welfare (consumption and poverty) using the Indonesian Family … econometric models confirm that earthquakes are the most destructive disaster to affect household welfare, whereas droughts … devastating impacts of disasters and in lessening households' vulnerability to poverty. The policy recommendations resulting from …