. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …

choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in … empirical work on poverty measurement is clarified. -- Poverty measures ; differences in needs ; principle of transfers …

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of … illustrate our new index with an application to EU countries. -- Intertemporal poverty measurement ; equity …

deprivation, which prove to admit decomposition into the mean and the dispersion of the distribution of multiple deprivations …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … 2005, we find substantial differences in country rankings based on standard FGT indices and on the new opportunity …-sensitive indices. Cross-country differences in opportunity-sensitive poverty are decomposed into a level effect; a distribution effect …

important to consider further how poverty indexes and axioms fare in variable population contexts. -- poverty ; measurement …