Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of … others' wellbeing on the judgment of the group's own situation. The indices, and related relative income change (RIC) curves …

paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …