empirical support for the claim that acquisition diaries yield the most accurate measurement of poverty and inequality and offer …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

high and stable growth and a decline in the poverty rate. Although rising, however, inequality is low in Ghana compared …

means of poverty reduction and argues that the poverty impact of distributional change is so minor that it can be neglected … maintained their most equitable income distribution of the past few decades, the global poverty headcount could have been reduced … poverty reduction strategy …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median … that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the minds of both the government and the public. Especially since it … multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness …