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 …

This paper investigates the possibility of increasing the ordering power of additively separable poverty measures … poverty line, the ordering power can be significantly enhanced by using the third degree criterion. For a range of poverty … the range; if the lower bound poverty line is arbitrarily close to zero, the two criteria coincide. The implications of a …

and incomes by using parametric formulae of poverty and inequality measures. We propose statistical indicators for the … levels, variabilities, and correlation of prices and incomes. The roles of price and income variabilities for poverty and …

lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality … inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to commonly used poverty lines in the United States. This paper … - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to develop better …

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

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

affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research … poverty and may guide anti-poverty policies …