Although poverty is widely recognised as a multidimensional phenomenon, we still believe that monetary aspect has a … according to a fuzzy approach that, unlike conventional methods, is consistent with the vague nature of poverty and preserves …

In recent years, it has become evident that pure monetary measures cannot represent the poverty phenomenon faithfully …. Poverty involves many different aspects of life that can be hardly condensed in a single monetary indicator. People can be … suggest that partially ordered set theory can provide new tools to develop fuzzy poverty measures on a sound basis …

of the poverty line. …

. At the beginning of the conclusions reached, the minimum wage, high shear between the poverty line, the food poverty line …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential … and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in Nigeria declined from 43 percent to 34 percent between 1985 and 1992 …. Decomposing the factors causing the reduction in poverty shows that the overall decline of 9 percentage point was the net result …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …