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 …

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 …

It is common to argue that poverty is a multidimensional issue. Yet few studies have included the various dimensions of … deprivation to yield a broader and fuller picture of poverty. In this paper we discuss ethical foundations of various recent … multidimensional poverty measures. An application of these measures to compare poverty between Egypt and south Africa is illustrated …

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 …