theory of global poverty measurement with preference heterogeneity. Surprisingly, a simple modification of the headcount …There is growing support for using global income poverty measures that account for both own income and relative income … relative income, the standard poverty indices are not necessarily reduced when a poor individual escapes poverty. We develop a …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

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 …

The European Union's Lisbon strategy goal of tackling poverty was a notable failure, while the Europe 2020 strategy …'s poverty target is out of reach. Both strategies were based on variants of the 'at risk of poverty' indicator, which has an … cointegration evidence, that the 'at risk of poverty' indicator essentially measures income inequality, not poverty. Our …

The introduction of the temporal component into poverty analysis takes us to the study of the poverty dynamic, which … aspects unrelated to income in the study of vulnerability to poverty, the monetary approach is put aside and the … multidimensional approach is used to elaborate the well-being index. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is constructed with data …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …

We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software-PLEASe computer code stream based on Arndt and … Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to measuring consumption poverty in order to analyse poverty in Madagascar in … differs from the approach undertaken by the national statistical office to produce the official poverty estimates and how the …

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