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 …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These …

multidimensional poverty concept into traditional poverty measurement. In response, several suggestions have been made to derive … different classes of multidimensional poverty measures. In this paper we focus on five axiomatically derived classes of … multidimensional poverty measures. Each of these classes follow the unidimensional approach to progressively weight the respective …

the poverty line across time and countries; (4) The quantitative vs. qualitative approach to poverty measurement; and (5 …The objective of this paper is to review a number of issues related to poverty, while taking stock of the ongoing … research. Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the dynamics of …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in prospect theory - to social welfare measurement. We … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …