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 …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

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 …

dealt with in microeconomics and the measurement of welfare and poverty in empirical distribution studies. In this … theoretical framework the empirical possibilities of poverty and welfare measurement that can be found in the literature will be … calculations on the basis of the ECHP. This welfare theory based classification of poverty measures has the advantage that …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

-91. The Paper has five sections. First we review unidimensional poverty measurement with particular attention to the well … in axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement, which enable the analyst to understand the ethical …-known Foster-Greer-Thorbecke measures of income poverty as many methods presented in OPHI Working Paper 84 (Chapter 3 – Overview of …

, to modify two unidimensional poverty indices: the Sen (1976, 1979) index and the Palma (2011) ratio. By implicating the … proportion of the population (the “poor”) with incomes below a poverty line, P is the average income gap ratio (< 0) of the poor … relative to the poverty line, and G_poor is the Gini (1912, 1921) coefficient of the censored poverty gap ratios for the …

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 …