I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of PPP price indexes … reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a billion globally poor … people came from an inappropriate updating of the global poverty line, not from the ICP revisions. Even so, PPP comparisons …

order to examine and decompose the dynamics of child poverty over the period. The study is specifically aimed at examining … the poverty dynamics of children, as they have been shown to one of the more vulnerable groups in South Africa. We use the … framework of an asset poverty line first developed by Carter and May (2001) in order to identify those children in households …

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

Global and local Poverty has been subject of study since early times, now a day, it seems like poverty alleviation is … one of the most important and complex issues countries and regions are facing, and dealing with. None the less, poverty … measurements lack of standardization and comprehensiveness, making difficult to compare and deeply understand poverty and its …

on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive … relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. …

poverty and of the rate of economic development are discussed. …

The prevalence of poverty in a given population is determined by both the level of average income and the shape of … income distribution. Accordingly, the difference in poverty between two populations can be attributed to disparities in their … average incomes and in the levels of income inequality. In this paper, we decompose the differences in relative poverty …