poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke … poverty to which its methodology has been applied. We conclude with a selection of prospective research topics. …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

sometimes also for evaluating the “poverty” degree of this population. In this article we show that Gini’s index is not always … so adequate to measure the poverty level of an analyzed population. More precisely, we’ll get two very different income … Gini index only together with other similar or complementary poverty indicators to evaluate the poverty level of a given …