The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

-poor by a wide spectrum of poverty analysts. The statistical properties of the various estimators are also derived in order to …

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

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

The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …

paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …

income. Considering both the distributive and efficiency criteria we search for a poverty reducing direction of VAT reform in … Bengal suggest that VAT reform is not largely poverty reducing. Further scopes of improvement in its design are observed. …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and … aggregation exercises; properties of poverty indices; some specific poverty measures; the problem of plurality and unambiguous …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …