Reference budgets could play an important role in the work of measuring poverty and assessing income adequacy, and in …

poverty measures. We focus on the United Nations Development Program approach to those issues, in particular regarding the … human development index and the multidimensional poverty index. …

This paper is devoted to the discussion of the measurement of human development and poverty, especially in United … indices over the last two decades, focusing on the well-known Human Development Index (HDI) and the poverty indices. We then …

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … choices in the measurement of poverty affect the empirical findings regarding the evolution of poverty between 2005 and 2009 …

This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer …,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which identifies the time … poverty in order to be chronically poor. The new family of chronic poverty measures is constructed by raising the (per …

Bislang beschränkt sich die Messung von Armut und Ungleichheit in der deutschen Armutsberichterstattung im Wesentlichen …

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to … poverty into contribution of growth and a contribution due to the redistribution, according to the decomposition approaches … (2001), and the Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate, suggested by Kakwani and Son (2002), are applied to assess the degree of pro …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …