model, to measure the effects of the RdC in terms of inequality reduction and, as a novel contribution, of absolute poverty … reducing inequality, and attenuating the incidence, and even more so the intensity, of absolute poverty. We also document how … minimum income scheme in Italy. In this paper, we use BIMic, the Bank of Italy’s static (non-behavioural) microsimulation …

Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper … proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition … of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by Alkire and colleagues. This makes it possible to assess a vast …

contribution in overall poverty for the periods 2011 and 2014 using MICS data and the Alkire-Foster method for four districts … overall poverty level in Lahore Division in 2014 compared to 2011. The living standards of the people residing in rural areas … are relatively low as compare to urban areas. Different standings of the poverty level are found in all districts, while …

This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western … industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type … market income poverty can have very different poverty rates once taxes and transfers have been received. Cross …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … substantial variation in the degree of income poverty estimated at the household level, particularly for young children and the … children, Irish income poverty rates in 2019 ranged from 15.0 per cent to 19.5 per cent - most of this variation is …

one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …