Most welfare studies are based on the assumption that wellbeing is monotonically related to the variables used for the analysis. While this assumption can be regarded as reasonable for many dimensions of wellbeing like income, education, or empowerment, there are some cases where it is...

Most studies have reported non negligible improvements for China in terms of poverty during the last three decades. However, this result is potentially hampered by two limitations. First, it may be contingent to the specific choices made regarding the poverty line and the poverty indices used...

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...

L’étude du textile à Sfax constitue l’objet analytique de cet article. La première section décrit le secteur à travers son importance pour l’économie régionale et ses caractéristiques de développement dans une dialectique locale de respect et d’évolution des traditions...

After decades of intensive research on the statistical size distribution of income and despite its empirical weaknesses, the lognormal distribution still enjoys an important popularity in the applied literature dedicated to poverty and inequality. In the present study, we emphasize the drawbacks...

Après des décennies de recherches intensives sur les distributions de revenus et malgré ses faiblesses empiriques, la loi log-normale jouit encore d'une popularité importante dans la littérature relative à la pauvreté et aux inégalités. La présente étude tente de mettre en évidence...

This erratum corrects some typos and misspecifications in Bresson (2008).