Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

error distributions. The application presented in this paper is the small area estimation of poverty and inequality …, although this denotes by no means the only application. Monte-Carlo simulations show that estimates of poverty and inequality … poverty rate of 20 to 30 percent. Most of this bias is resolved when using the proposed estimator. The approach is applicable …

estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …