We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …

and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … administrative tax and program data. Of the 3.6 million non-homeless households with survey-reported cash income below $2/person … income. Of the households remaining in extreme poverty, 90% consist of a single individual. An implication of the low recent …

-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income …

Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing …

-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income …

consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income …, an income-based measure of well-being could yield misleading results for many households, especially at older ages. The …

In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using …

policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …