The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in … inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … poverty if we use other poverty lines. We find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …