Recent economic growth has not been accompanied by social stability; thus equity-oriented research is of high social priority. A more just distribution of material well-being is not only a valid objective in itself but also a means of attaining more economic growth. The alleged trade-off between...

The meaningfulness of a poverty measure depends on both the social acceptability of the poverty line and the accuracy of the measured distribution of purchasing power to which the line is applied. In particular, the use of linear programming to construct a minimum food budget and the uncritical...