tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place … between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with … yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We …

To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

To what extent do income taxation systems decrease poverty? We raise this question under the assumption that well …

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 …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aggregation exercises; properties of poverty indices; some specific poverty measures; the problem of plurality and unambiguous …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

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 provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of non-monetary deprivation and also monetary poverty … complete mapping of poverty in Mozambique. Monetary and non-monetary deprivation seem to have very different distribution …