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 …

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

This paper offers a micro-founded general definition of poverty set in the context of utility theory. Poverty and non-poverty …

This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of … well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are … information than do univariate poverty comparisons …

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on poverty measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … specific criteria for poverty measurement that we examined … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which individuals' perceptions of poverty correspond to the …

Americans from the Census Bureau’s poverty measurement analyses. Nevertheless, the Article continues its poverty measure … poverty measures. Nevertheless, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and legislators generally do not understand the details … of poverty measure mechanics. These detailed mechanics shape and reshape poverty measures and the too often uninformed …