Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable is measured on a metric scale. However, estimation is not possible, using standard formulas, when the income …

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

skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to compute quantities of interest from the estimated … parameters are required. We review estimation methodology that has appeared in the literature, and summarize expressions for … inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

been analysed by means of inequality and poverty indices calculated at NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 levels. In order to work out the …

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …