In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … Santiago should try to measure segregation based on income and, especially, poverty. The main goal of this paper is to … still exist. It's for this reason that poverty and education should have a higher priority than segregation in the public …

point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the … present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty measures which …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

The paper provides the axiomatic characterization of a new poverty measure, the path-dependent poverty index. This is a …-dependent poverty is higher for the population where all individuals experienced an income fall. Not only they are poor, they also feel …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

This study empirically examined the relationship between poverty, income inequality and economic growth in Nigeria. The … the country while poverty was found to be positively related to economic growth. Similarly, the findings also revealed … that poverty and income inequality has an insignificant effect on economic growth in Nigeria. Based on the findings, it can …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … ; poverty ; labour market …

point is afforded by the status of a "focus axiom" in the measurement of poverty. "Focus" requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an "income-focus" but not a "population-focus" axiom. This, it is argued in … the present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty …