procedure: statistical methods and methods based on economic theory. The latter include a new procedure which is based on the P …. Statistical core inflation rates perform relatively well, while core rates based on economic theory suffer, in particular, from a …

new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new … estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …

as poverty measures. Recent research has provided evidence that spatial modelling still can improve the precision of … the posterior under a flat p rior. F urther, we show using the SAIPE poverty data that the gain in efficiency using a …