, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expendituredata shows a variety of interesting results with regard to …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … within the population, especially older single people. -- alternative equivalence scale ; Germany ; USA ; distribution of … income ; inequality ; poverty …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

The issue of land inequality has garnered renewed interest in development literature due to its potential impact on the … welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is a crucial sustainable development goal, and a clearer understanding of … the factors contributing to poverty is essential for effective, targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria. Investigating the …

The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential … effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer … understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is important for effective targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria …