finds higher level of poverty and income inequality among disabled elderly as compared to non-disabled elderly and those …. Finally, the estimation results confirm the hypothesis of causal relationship between poverty and disability. …This paper attempts to analyze the depth of poverty and examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty …

This paper examines various aspects of elderly poverty and its measurement. It first discusses some of the most … important issues relating to measuring elderly poverty. It then reviews recent trends in elderly poverty, which show … considerable heterogeneity in the extent of elderly poverty even among developed countries. Such cross-country differences are due …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and inequality … with poverty measures are rarely larger than one percentage point. For data from multi-peaked or heavily skewed …

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … these methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and … inequality are better estimated when the true distribution is unimodal than multimodal. For unimodal distributions, biases …

for describing social disadvantage in contemporary Sweden – poverty, social exclusion and the concept “utanförskap”. The …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application … 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 …

We have examined recent trends in the poverty in Finland using two data sources, the Household Budget Survey (HBS) and … the Income Distribution statistics (IDS). We have drawn on the recent literature on poverty analysis to analyse a range of … poverty measures. Scalar measures were complemented by an investigation of stochastic dominance in the analysis of poverty. As …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … spatial domains and limiting the number of iterations in the estimation of poverty lines are potential solutions. … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …