In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

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

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We … discussion of the results of empirical analysis, has preferred to focus on income inequality. This paper looks into the analysis …

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