for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality. They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive … estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax …

(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …

Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings … dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this … tail in the skill distribution, there is no practical possibility of policy reducing relative poverty to 1979 levels. …

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms. …

appreciable impact on growth and poverty. The evidence presented suggests that land reforms do appear to be associated with … poverty reduction. …

This paper models the dynamic interactions between growth and distribution in the analysis of the behavior of poverty … over time. The model permits formal analysis of the factors that led to the growth collapse as well as the rise in poverty … performance during this period-- in terms of the rate of acceleration of growth, changes in poverty and extent of inequality …

The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a normative problem on … plurality. In the paper, we suggest an approach to poverty measurement which avoids incorporating any particular normative … position on how to weigh the interests of various poor groups, but rather reports on changes in poverty by making explicit the …