This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as … measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its aggregation over various age groups. The trends highlight a … significant reduction in poverty among the elderly and a gradual increase in poverty among children and working age individuals …

What factors led to the reduction of poverty in Latin America from 1990 onwards? This article looks into the key … factors that have played a part in reducing poverty in the region, including, in particular, employment and remuneration for … families in the lowest deciles of income distribution and hence in poverty indicators …

This paper attempts to measure the extent of inequality within households and its contribution to overall levels of … inequality in child well-being. The paper analyses the distribution of resources (outcomes) between girls and boys for four … obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two …

growth, poverty, and inequality. We find that typicalsurvey measures of consumption and income may exaggerate poverty …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …

The at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROP) is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 … poverty and social exclusion reduction target. Timeliness of this indicator is crucial for monitoring of the social situation …, estimates of the number of people at risk of poverty are published with a significant delay. This paper extends and updates …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …