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

A key element of anti-poverty policy is the accurate identification of poor individuals. However, measuring poverty at … collective household model offers an alternative and promising framework to estimate poverty at the individual level while …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare … used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. …

consistent assessments of social welfare, inequality and poverty embodied in a given income distribution. Methods: We propose …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …