investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

This paper proposes a class of decomposable poverty measures. It incorporates ideas of flexible minimum basic … poverty measure can be used in a straightforward manner to derive a metric to evaluate the efficiency of the public transfer …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

We use data from the British Household Panel Survey to analyse changes in poverty of self-reported health from 1991 to … 2008. We use the indices recently introduced by Bennett and Hatzimasoura (Poverty measurement with ordinal data. Institute … classical Foster et al. (Econometrica 52(3):761-766, 1984) poverty measures. We decompose changes in self-reported health …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the …-economic groups rose. All poverty indicators suggest that poverty increased substantially, especially when "anchored" poverty lines … are used. Substantial changes are observed regarding the structure of poverty. Despite an increase in the population share …