framework of the poverty measurement, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues …This essay describes the evolution of the Economics of Poverty. It shows how the leading objectives of its authors …;rediscovering poverty eraquot; in the 1960s. After that, it concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical …

of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I …Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal … comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact … proposed method proves useful for evaluating the theoretical basis of the standard methods for measuring chronic poverty …

Empirical research on poverty today often goes beyond a focus on income to consider other dimensions of well …-being. However, relatively few multidimensional poverty measures explicitly consider time, despite its particular relevance to women …'s double burden of paid and unpaid work. We construct a bivariate relative poverty line between income and leisure, based on …

at a new measure of vulnerability to poverty. We highlight the importance of current standard of living to better capture … standard expected poverty measures that is commonly found in the literature. We also axiomatically characterize the new class …

light on the robustness of poverty comparisons to these important measurement issues. These general conditions extend well …When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to idendify the poor, an equivalence … scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate …

This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our … measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with loss aversion. We …, and Germany dominates the United States if poverty stocks are given more importance than poverty flows. The differences …

This paper tests for robust multidimensional poverty comparisons across six countries of the West African Economic and …. Multidimensional poverty is also inferred to be more prevalent in rural than in urban areas. These results tend to support those …