methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered … aggregates. We use Georgia as a case study to compare these methods and assess impacts on poverty and inequality. The proportion … these changes. First, we present theory showing significant mismeasurement of welfare for households who can shift into …

We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity - one a … strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also … background. Dominance conditions are established for each class of measures, and a sub-family of scalar indices, based on a rank …

This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- a rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; the Gini coefficient …

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …. A robust example illustrates this result. -- A rank-preserving inequality-narrowing transfer ; The Gini coefficient …

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … Department based on the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2010). The proposed index for Colombia is composed of five dimensions … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …

. 4. On the decomposition of income and wage inequality -- pt. 5. Individual well-being and poverty. …

This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with … respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty … and wealth. Additionally, a modification of the identification step of the Alkire-Foster index is proposed to guarantee …

This paper proposes a comparison between multidimensional and unidimensional poverty indicators. Sets of poor units … also to the multidimensional measurement, such as the effect of the weighting system. Our results stress that the … unidimensional indicators provide partial information on poverty condition. …