consistency properties. The class encompasses some widely used income inequality and poverty measures, in particular the variance …, the Gini index, the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratios, the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index, and the Sen index and … its modified form. This paper illustrates how these measures come together within the class of U-statistics, and thereby …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

are non-poor but food insecure. Towards this end, the paper attempts to: exemplify the issue with reference to measures … and criteria for identifying the poor and food insecure; to estimate the incidence of poverty and food insecurity at the … aggregate estimates of poverty and food insecurity broadly tally at the national level and for several states. The targeted …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …