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

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural …

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 …

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 …

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 … of wealth or income in different strata. In line with this analogy, first I compute refractive index for each stratum …

This paper reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the … as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one … Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from …

inequality index. We also discuss a comparison with the Gini concentration index and highlight interesting properties of the …Additive decomposability is an interesting feature of inequality indices which, however, is not always fulfilled … paper, we apply these methods, based on the “Shapley value” and the “balance of inequality” respectively, to the Bonferroni …