Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …

multidimensional poverty within and between sub-groups of population, and to determine the dimensions that tend to increase inequality … in poverty. The goal of this article is double. Firstly, we present the combined methodology to study the inequality in …In 1990, Cerioli and Zani introduced an operational multivariate method to analyse and measure poverty, aiming at …

fluctuation and equally-distributed equivalent poverty gaps approaches for comparison. The latter approach introduces inequality …Most of the earlier studies of poverty in Kenya have basically been static in nature. They have attempted to measure … necessarily provide a good indication of welfare stability over time. This study makes an empirical contribution to poverty …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

results suggest that the spatial inequality dimension should be added to analyses of income and poverty transition dynamics. …Despite the increasing awareness concerning the importance of distinguishing chronic and transient poverty for policy … making, cross-country comparative studies of poverty dynamics in developing countries are virtually non-existent. The small …

How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated seriously under …-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the robustness of these kind of … comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty transitions for households …

results suggest that the spatial inequality dimension should be added to analyses of income and poverty transition dynamics. …Despite the increasing awareness concerning the importance of distinguishing chronic and transient poverty for policy … making, cross-country comparative studies of poverty dynamics in developing countries are virtually non-existent. The small …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …