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

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … choices in the measurement of poverty affect the empirical findings regarding the evolution of poverty between 2005 and 2009 …

Reference budgets could play an important role in the work of measuring poverty and assessing income adequacy, and in …

poverty measures. We focus on the United Nations Development Program approach to those issues, in particular regarding the … human development index and the multidimensional poverty index. …

This paper is devoted to the discussion of the measurement of human development and poverty, especially in United … indices over the last two decades, focusing on the well-known Human Development Index (HDI) and the poverty indices. We then …

used as a meaningful basis for targeting and poverty measurement. … aim to reflect local perceptions of poverty. This paper demonstrates how such a measure can be constructed, using data … from a field experiment on poverty targeting in Indonesia. It then explores the potential impact of using this welfare …

Bourguignon and Fields ("Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy") and Gangopadhyay and Subramanian ("Optimal … Budgetary Intervention in Poverty Alleviation Schemes") have derived optimal budgetary rules for the redress of poverty through … direct income transfers when poverty is measured by the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke Pá class of indices in the context of a …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international … inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency, variable definitions and measurement, changing population and …