the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 …Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose poverty into …