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Measuring Welfare, Poverty and Inequality

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A class of poverty measures is identified, the members of which satisfy strong monotonicity and transfer conditions. These measures are closely related to indices of income inequality based on the notion of a mean-equivalent income. A restriction on the class of admissible measures allows poverty to be interpreted in terms of the loss in mean-equivalent income resulting from the fact that some people are poor. Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.

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  • Pyatt, Graham, 1987. "Measuring Welfare, Poverty and Inequality," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 97(386), pages 459-467, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:97:y:1987:i:386:p:459-67
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    1. David T. Johnson & Peter B. Dixon, 1999. "Australian Poverty Quantified by a Family‐Based Poverty Index," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 75(2), pages 103-114, June.
    2. Antonio Villar, 2022. "Welfare poverty and human development," Working Papers 22.04, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
    3. Keshab Raj Bhattarai, 2007. "Capital Accumulation, Growth and Redistribution: General Equilibrium Impacts of Energy and Pollution Taxes in UK," Energy and Environmental Modeling 2007 24000005, EcoMod.
    4. Francisco J. Ciocchini & Gabriel Molteni, 2008. "Medidas alternativas de la pobreza en el Gran Buenos Aires, 1995-2006," Ensayos de Política Económica, Departamento de Investigación Francisco Valsecchi, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina., vol. 1(2), pages 46-82, Octubre.
    5. Yitzhaki, Shlomo, 2002. "Do we need a separate poverty measurement?," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 61-85, March.
    6. Antonio Villar, 2023. "Welfare Poverty Measurement," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 147-162, April.
    7. Salvatore Flavio Pileggi, 2023. "Walking Together Indicator (WTI): Understanding and Measuring World Inequality," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-16, March.
    8. Ravallion, Martin, 1994. "Measuring Social Welfare with and without Poverty Lines," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 84(2), pages 359-364, May.
    9. Geoffrey A. Jehle, 1992. "An Islamic Perspective on Inequality in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 31(3), pages 295-316.
    10. Storchmann, Karl, 2005. "Long-Run Gasoline demand for passenger cars: the role of income distribution," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 25-58, January.
    11. Albarrán, Pedro & Ortuño, Ignacio & Ruiz-Castillo, Javier, 2011. "The measurement of low- and high-impact in citation distributions: Technical results," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 5(1), pages 48-63.
    12. Jehle, Geoffrey, 1990. "Inequality in Pakistan: A Social Welfare Approach," MPRA Paper 73429, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Keshab Raj Bhattarai, 2007. "Analyses of Poverty and Income Redistribution," EcoMod2007 23900007, EcoMod.
    14. Sreenivasan Subramanian, 2004. "Indicators of Inequality and Poverty," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2004-25, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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