This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … relationship between Lorenz, welfare, and inequality orderings. The second section, on poverty, deals with the identification and …

's capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as …]) and the decomposition by sources (SHAPLEY-SHORROCKS [1999]), enables the analysis of deprivation in terms of inequality of …

considerations, axiomatic research on poverty and deprivation, and previous empirical research on social exclusion and subjective … deprivation and income poverty. Moreover, regression techniques reveal deprivation in social participation to reduce life …This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of …

development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and … societies in European countries. Social and economic exclusion – alternatively called as deprivation – are widely recognized as … symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care …

This paper uses the recent approach of multidimensional deprivation measures to provide a comprehensive and wide … disaggregated levels and by socio economic groups. The deprivation dimensions range widely from the conventional expenditure … stunting and the mother’s BMI. The use of decomposable deprivation measures allows the identification of regions, socio …

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

This study analyzes the impact of remittances on poverty in Nigeria, using data from the 2004 Nigerian National Living … (PSM) method to estimate the impact of remittances on poverty. The use of these methods was based on two reasons. The first … international remittances reduce the incidence, depth and severity of poverty. The statistical tests show a significant Average …