reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …

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

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in …

; chronic poverty ; early poverty ; poverty measurement …This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the … theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells …

important to consider further how poverty indexes and axioms fare in variable population contexts. -- poverty ; measurement …Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world … and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

. -- prospect theory ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in prospect theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …