We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic human capabilities for three countries: Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam …. We compute standard errors of the resulting poverty estimates and compare the incidence of poverty across these three …

We introduce an analytical framework for welfare analysis that accounts for changes in the joint distribution of prices … and incomes by using parametric formulae of poverty and inequality measures. We propose statistical indicators for the … levels, variabilities, and correlation of prices and incomes. The roles of price and income variabilities for poverty and …

Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this … in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …

relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality and … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more …

inequality relate to changes in consumption and poverty. In addition, we examine whether there has been convergence in inequality … and median consumption expenditure increased. At the same time, poverty incidence and severity increased precipitously … regions in consumption or poverty levels. We also find that durable goods expenditures are the biggest contributor to …

multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with … as few as two survey rounds and produces point estimates of transitions along the welfare distribution at the more …

In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … Santiago should try to measure segregation based on income and, especially, poverty. The main goal of this paper is to … still exist. It's for this reason that poverty and education should have a higher priority than segregation in the public …