This erratum corrects some typos and misspecifications in Bresson (2008).

What are the respective contributions of growth and inequality changes to observed poverty variations? Many studies have attempted to provide some empirical evidence to answer this question using case studies with decompositions of observed poverty spells. Most of them rely on two decomposition...

The paper deals with poverty orderings when multidimensional attributes exhibit some degree of comparability. The paper focuses on an important special case of this, that is, comparisons of poverty that make use of incomes at different time periods. The ordering criteria extend the power of...

Many authors have recently emphasized the crucial role of income inequalities in the design of efficient policies aimed at reducing poverty. However, the link between variations of the degree of inequality and variations of poverty are not well documented. The literature, for instance, does not...

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we show that few information is needed for the ordering of...

Après des décennies de recherches intensives sur les distributions de revenus et malgré ses faiblesses empiriques, la loi log-normale jouit encore d'une popularité importante dans la littérature relative à la pauvreté et aux inégalités. La présente étude tente de mettre en évidence...

After decades of intensive research on the statistical size distribution of income and despite its empirical weaknesses, the lognormal distribution still enjoys an important popularity in the applied literature dedicated to poverty and inequality. In the present study, we emphasize the drawbacks...

Most studies have reported non negligible improvements for China in terms of poverty during the last three decades. However, this result is potentially hampered by two limitations. First, it may be contingent to the specific choices made regarding the poverty line and the poverty indices used...