poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …

Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the … income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic … dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median …

The introduction of the temporal component into poverty analysis takes us to the study of the poverty dynamic, which … aspects unrelated to income in the study of vulnerability to poverty, the monetary approach is put aside and the … multidimensional approach is used to elaborate the well-being index. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is constructed with data …