poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes …

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality … of wealth or income in different strata. In line with this analogy, first I compute refractive index for each stratum …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

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 …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural …

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 …

high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … understanding of the extent and nature of inequality. From these measures, we know that inequality has been rising in Ghana despite …

, the Gini index is 2μX − 1, i.e., the normalization of the barycenter, which is in the range [0, 1/2], the concentration … distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …