regression ; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures ; NHANES …

We develop a poverty decomposition method that is based on a consumption regression model. Because this method uses an … integral of the partial derivatives of a poverty measure with respect to time, the resulting poverty decomposition satisfies … time-reversion consistency and sub-period additivity. Unlike the existing poverty decomposition methods, it allows us to …

reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

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

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

The measurement of poverty has often been criticized for relying solely on measures of financial deprivation. Poverty … tides, care should be taken to integrate these various components to have a proper picture of poverty. This is especially …, unemployment or housing benefits. Social exclusion and poor health can therefore dominate the poverty feeling.We illustrate how …

The pace of poverty reduction through growth vs. redistribution is at the heart of current debates on equitable … development. In this paper, we argue that empirical poverty decompositions should build in the inherent boundedness of the poverty … headcount ratio directly. As a solution, we propose a fractional response approach to estimating poverty decompositions, and …

; chronic poverty ; early poverty ; poverty measurement …This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the … theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells …

important to consider further how poverty indexes and axioms fare in variable population contexts. -- poverty ; measurement …Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of …