headcount ratio, using income and expenditure survey microdata. With the poverty line as defined here, approximately half the …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article …

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution …, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

Equivalence scales are a prerequisite for any economic well-being comparison with measures on income distribution …, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West … similar microdata bases, recent income and consumption surveys of both countries. We concentrate on a single equation …

different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

headcount ratio, using income and expenditure survey microdata. With the poverty line as defined here, approximately half the … appears feasible with moderate growth rates and fairly mild pro-poor distributional change. -- income distribution ; poverty …The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African …

different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of …

different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

poverty concept should be but one in a system of concepts that throws light on the whole distribution of income and wealth and …The interests in social indicators and social reporting started in the 1960s with the new awareness of poverty in the … midst of affluence. In this paper I first discuss the poverty concept and its implication for social policy strategy. The …

specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty headcount ratio, using newly released income and expenditure survey data. With …The South African government has set as a policy objective the halving of poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this … goal has not yet been defined. This article frames government’s stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of …

different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …German and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …