The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …

OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests …, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in … predicting poverty using alternative objective functions and stochastic dominance analysis based on coverage curves. It finds …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global … development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the headcount, or the number of the poor, both convey … tangible information about poverty. But both ignore the depth of poverty, so they arguably present distorted views of the …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

means of poverty reduction and argues that the poverty impact of distributional change is so minor that it can be neglected … maintained their most equitable income distribution of the past few decades, the global poverty headcount could have been reduced … poverty reduction strategy …

point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such … as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one …

point is afforded by the status of a focus-axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty …Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the …