a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one's conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to … also shows how the pro-poorness of a tax reform depends on one’s conception of poverty as well as on the revenue and …

of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …