people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and … affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and … affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research …

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

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

Forward-looking poverty analyses are essential for targeting and implementing poverty prevention interventions. In the … presence of uncertainty and risk, the current poverty status of households is not a good indicator of whether they will be poor … household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …

This paper discusses time poverty (well-being) of the individual and puts it in the Ghanaian perspective. The paper … examine hours adults as well as children allocate to work. The paper measured time poverty from the Ghanaian context. Using … the Ghana Living Standard Survey, round six (GLSS, 6) and employing OLS, Logit and Quantile analysis, interesting and …

paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …