of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. It also … derives estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially …

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 … important for poverty analysis. An empirical illustration based on deprivation data from four Central American countries …

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

, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for more than 80 countries from 1981 to 2005, we find that income instability results in a lower poverty …

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 … poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

information, it is already a challenge to derive interesting parameter like inequality or poverty for the individual countries … and global income, poverty and inequality for the period 1980-2013 only based on income quintiles of 178 countries …

The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated … scholars and the public alike. Yet with all of the attention that has been paid to poverty, the crucial role of the law …, particularly state and local law, in perpetuating poverty is largely ignored. This Article offers a new theory of poverty, one that …

present a case study using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in the sixth section. The final section presents …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper examines how the challenge of poverty can be effectively addressed by broadly … curse of poverty for themselves and for their future generations.Design/methodology/approach – The elimination of poverty by … for the elimination of poverty reveals that the poverty gap can be eliminated through resource mobilization, as well as by …