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

. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and … methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

This paper proposes a class of decomposable poverty measures. It incorporates ideas of flexible minimum basic … poverty measure can be used in a straightforward manner to derive a metric to evaluate the efficiency of the public transfer …

Poverty statistics are conventionally compiled using data from household income and expenditure survey or living … standards survey. This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available … geospatial data can accurately predict the spatial distribution of poverty in Thailand. In particular, geospatial data examined …

The spatial granularity of poverty statistics can have a significant impact on the efficiency of targeting resources … granular poverty maps. This study outlines a computational framework to enhance the spatial granularity of government …-published poverty estimates using a deep layer computer vision technique applied on publicly available medium-resolution satellite …

scholars in the field of economic inequality measurement developed methods to estimate empirically the distribution of welfare …In the age of globalization, the question whether inequality in the world rose or fell down, is a hot topic. Leading … no doubt that world inequality went down between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, has in fact calculated population …

our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and … strongly criticized. The criticisms raisequestions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general …

This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in …' rather than 'rightist' or 'leftist' inequality measures, lead to a picture of inequality in the distribution of consumption … expenditure widening over time, which is at odds with the impression of more or less unchanging inequality conveyed in some of the …