the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian Federation … demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

The World Bank's international poverty line has been a success in drawing the attention of policymakers and media to … the issue of poverty. This paper summarises the main critique in the literature and adds some additional insights …, pointing out the weak database for the estimation of the international poverty line. The author also shows how poverty outcomes …