; welfare ; multi-dimensional poverty measurement ; first order dominance ; Mozambique ; Vietnam …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …

point is afforded by the status of a focus-axiom in the measurement of poverty. Focus requires that a measure of poverty … poverty indices advanced in the literature satisfy an income-focus but not a population-focus axiom. This, it is argued in the … present paper, makes for an incoherent underlying conception of poverty. The paper provides examples of poverty measures which …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between relative poverty and/or inequality on the one hand and the … other. Using data from the 27 E.U. member states we try to establish a link of prevailing inequality/poverty inside each … positive relationship between higher inequality/poverty at the national level and the size of the economic crisis impact …