This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers … functionings. In addition to an introductory and a concluding part, the paper has four sections. The first of these, on measurement …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and … manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly … desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted …

Die Armut ist in Deutschland zu einem wachsenden Problem geworden. Trotz der aktuellen Konjunktur auf dem Arbeitsmarkt … Rekordzahl für die Armutsentwicklung meldet. Wie lässt sich Armut am aussagefähigsten messen? Welche Indikatoren beschreiben …

antipoverty policy. While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for … to avoid poverty. We begin by reviewing international concepts and measures of poverty. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS …) database contains the information needed to construct comparable poverty measures for more than 30 nations. It allows …

choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in … empirical work on poverty measurement is clarified. …The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in …

poverty alleviation policies and poverty measurement practices, as well as on different poverty indices and the properties of …This study attempts to introduce a new method to measure relative income poverty. The aim is to find a solution which … will combine information both on the depth of poverty and the quantity of the poor, i.e. the number of people living in …

This paper begins by asking how poverty in affluent countries should be measured, before examining recent evidence on … poverty intensity and its social significance. Section 1 advocates use of the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity … and introduces the 'Poverty Box' as a summary graphical representation. Recently, poverty intensity has increased in …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …

Armut ist ein weiter Begriff. Die Kriterien, wann Armut anfängt, sind durchaus umstritten. So erhalten in Deutschland …Poverty is a broad term. The criteria that define poverty are a contentious issue. Just over nine per cent of the … cent of the population are at risk of poverty. A glance at the different methods of calculation explains this large …