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Institutional quality and poverty measures in a cross-section of countries,
Alberto Chong and Cesar Calderon, in Economics of Governance (2000)
Keywords: JEL classification:O10,O17, Key words:Institutional Quality, Poverty, Lorenz Curves, Headcount Index, FGT Measures.,

Child income poverty in China from 2005 to 2015: The application and decomposition of the FGT indexes,
Zuobao Wang and Xiaoou Man, in Children and Youth Services Review (2019)
Keywords: Child poverty; FGT index; Subgroup decomposition; Growth-redistribution decomposition; Pro-poor growth;

Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups,
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti and Marisa Civardi, from IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD (2006)
Keywords: poverty measurement; FGT index; subgroup poverty lines;

Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data,
Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura and Christopher Bennett, from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy (2011)
Keywords: poverty measurement, ordinal data, FGT poverty measures, social welfare, dominance conditions

Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: An Application to the Philippines,
Tomoki Fujii, from Asian Development Bank Institute (2014)
Keywords: economic growth; foster-greer-thorbecke (fgt) measure; inequality; inflation; poverty profile; watts measure

Monitoring Progress in Child Poverty Reduction: Methodological Insights and Illustration to the Case Study of Bangladesh,
Jose Roche, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2013)
Keywords: Child poverty, Multidimensional poverty, Poverty measurement, FGT measures, Capability approach, Bangladesh,

Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement,
Sabina Alkire and James Foster, in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2011)
Keywords: Poverty measurement, Multidimensional poverty, Deprivation, FGT measures, Decomposability, Joint distribution, Axiom, I3, I32, D63, O1,

Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement,
James Foster and Sabina Alkire, from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy (2011)
Keywords: poverty measurement, multidimensional poverty, deprivation, FGT measures, decomposability, joint distribution, axioms.

Beyond Piketty: A new perspective on poverty and inequality in India,
Varsha S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha, in Journal of Policy Modeling (2021)
Keywords: Income inequality; Piketty's measure; FGT class of poverty indices; Inequality and poverty; India;

TIPs for the Analysis of Poverty in Mexico, 1992-2005,
Carlos Urzúa, Alejandra Macías and Héctor H. Sandoval, from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México (2007)
Keywords: Poverty, confidence intervals, standard error, bootstrap, resampling, FGT measures, TIP curves, dominance, Mexico

TIPs for the Analysis of Poverty in Mexico, 1992-2005,
Carlos Urzúa, Alejandra Macías and Héctor H. Sandoval, in Revista de Administración, Finanzas y Economía (Journal of Management, Finance and Economics) (2008)
Keywords: Poverty, confidence intervals, standard error, bootstrap, resampling, FGT measures,TIP curves, dominance, Mexico

Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement,
Sabina Alkire and James Foster, in Journal of Public Economics (2011)
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty measurement Capability approach Identification FGT measures Decomposability Ordinal variables

Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement,
Sabina Alkire and James Foster, in Journal of Public Economics (2011)
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty measurement; Capability approach; Identification; FGT measures; Decomposability; Ordinal variables;

Accounting for trends in health poverty: A decomposition analysis for Britain, 1991-2008,
Michał Brzeziński, from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw (2013)
Keywords: health poverty, ordinal FGT measures, self-reported health, statistical inference, British Household Panel Survey

FGT_CI: Stata module to calculate and decompose Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (and standard) concentration indices,
Marcel Bilger, from Boston College Department of Economics (2017)
Keywords: inequality, poverty, concentration, FGT, two-part model

Longitudinal administrative data: a complementary tool to measure poverty among Belgian elderly,
Marjan Maes, from Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management (2008)
Keywords: poverty measurement; FGT indices; economics of the elderly

Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups,
Massimo Civardi and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, in Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2008)
Keywords: Poverty measurement, FGT index, group-specific poverty lines

Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty,
Tony Castleman, James Foster and Stephen Smith, from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy (2015)
Keywords: Poverty measurement, headcount, poverty gap, FGT indices, development goals, inclusive growth, multidimensional poverty

Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty,
Tony Castleman, James Foster and Stephen Smith, from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015)
Keywords: poverty measurement, headcount, poverty gap, FGT indices, development goals, inclusive growth, multidimensional poverty

Accounting for trends in health poverty: a decomposition analysis for Britain, 1991–2008,
Michał Brzeziński, in The European Journal of Health Economics (2015)
Keywords: Health poverty, Ordinal FGT measures, Self-reported health, Statistical inference, British Household Panel Survey, I32, I1, D63,

The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh,
Bezon Kumar, in Remittances Review (2019)
Keywords: remittances; poverty; FGT index; logit model; Bangladesh

Poverty, Gap and Severity Estimates for Disaster Prone Rural Areas of Pakistan,
Manzoor Memon, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2023)
Keywords: Rural poverty, Disasters, FGT index, Pakistan

A Hypothesis on Poverty Change in Albania (2007-2016),
Antonella Biscione, Dorothee Boccanfuso and Raul Caruso, in Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2020)
Keywords: FGT class index, Poverty, Poverty decomposition, Elasticity of poverty, Albania

A Hypothesis on Poverty Change in Albania (2007-2016),
Antonella Biscione, Dorothee Boccanfuso and Raul Caruso, from Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2020)
Keywords: FGT class index, poverty, poverty decomposition, elasticity of poverty, Albania.

What is poverty? Concepts and measures,
Dag Ehrenpreis, from International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2006)
Keywords: What is poverty, concepts, measures

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Poverty in Albania (2007-2016),
Raul Caruso and Antonella Biscione, from European Centre of Peace Science, Integration and Cooperation (CESPIC), Catholic University 'Our Lady of Good Counsel' (2020)
Keywords: FGT class index, poverty, poverty decomposition, elasticity of poverty, Albania

Changing Pattern of Poverty 1997-2004,
Alvaro Angeriz and Shanti Chakravarty, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2005)
Keywords: Poverty, Child Poverty, Income Distribution, FGT, Great Britain.

Measuring chronic and transient components of poverty: a Bayesian approach,
Hikaru Hasegawa and Kazuhiro Ueda, in Empirical Economics (2007)
Keywords: Birth–death process, Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) measure, Gibbs sampling, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), C11, C15, D63,

Should Poverty and Inequality Measures be Combined?,
Gary S. Fields, from Springer (2006)
Keywords: Poverty Line, Inequality Measure, Poverty Measure, Deprivation Index, Poverty Index

Trends in Child Poverty by Race/Ethnicity: New Evidence Using an Anchored Historical Supplemental Poverty Measure,
Laura Nolan, Irwin Garfinkel, Neeraj Kaushal, JaeHyun Nam, Jane Waldfogel and Christopher Wimer, from Mathematica Policy Research
Keywords: poverty statistics, poverty measure

Child Income Poverty Levels and Trends in Urban China from 1989 to 2011,
Di Qi and Yichao Wu, in Child Indicators Research (2016)
Keywords: Child poverty, Relative income, Inequality, FGT index, Poverty gap, China

A quality-index of poverty measures,
Daniel Gottlieb and Alexander Fruman, from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2011)
Keywords: poverty measures, food poverty, evaluation of poverty reduction policies

Non-Food Poverty Differential Across Urban/Rural and Geo-political Zones in Nigeria,
Justine Nwanakwere and Fidelis Ogwumike, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2020)
Keywords: FGT, non-food poverty, GHS, severity, poverty gap

Measuring and analyzing the non-monetary approach of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs in Togo,
Yawo Noglo, from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (2014)
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty, Basic needs, Characteristics of household head, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), Composite Poverty Indicator (CPI), FGT index, Togo

A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security,
Shawn Fremstad, from Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (2010)
Keywords: poverty, disability, poverty level, poverty measure

Tourism and poverty reduction: Empirical evidence from China,
Lei Zhao and Xin Xia, in Tourism Economics (2020)
Keywords: China; FGT index; panel data; poverty reduction; tourism

Geographical Dynamics of Poverty in Nepal between 2005 and 2011: Where and How?,
Jifei Zhang, Chunyan Liu, Craig Hutton and Hriday Lal Koirala, in Sustainability (2018)
Keywords: unidimensional poverty ( UP ); geographical dynamics; Foster-Greer-Thorbecke ( FGT ); Nepal

Measuring Poverty with Demographic Variables in Oil and Gas Polluted Crop Farms in Rivers State, Nigeria,
ThankGod Peter Ojimba, in International Journal of Sciences (2014)
Keywords: Household heads poverty, headcount, poverty gap, poverty severity, FGT, demographic variables, crude oil and gas polluted crop farms, Rivers State Nigeria

Poverty in a Wealthy Economy: The Case of Nigeria,
Sudharshan Canagarajah and Saji Thomas, from International Monetary Fund (2002)
Keywords: WP;economic growth;per capita income;terms of trade;poverty incidence;standard of living; Poverty; Income distribution; Targeting; Nigeria; oil wealth; export income; poverty level; poverty line income; FGT poverty measure; profile of Nigeria; gap index; poverty incidence in Nigeria; poverty profile of Nigeria; Poverty reduction; Personal income; Africa; Asia and Pacific; Sub-Saharan Africa

Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures,
Russell Davidson and Emmanuel Flachaire, from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1) (2004)
Keywords: Bootstrap; statistical performance; inequality measures; poverty measures

Effect of Poultry Production on the Poverty Status of Small Scale Farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria,
Babatunde Raphael Olanrewaju, Adekunle Adedayo Olufemi and Olagunju Funke Iyabo, in Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development (2012)
Keywords: Small-scale poultry production, poverty reduction, FGT, logit regression

Poultry production and rural poverty among small-scale farmers in Mzimba District of Malawi,
Maganga Assa, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2012)
Keywords: FGT, Poverty, Small-scale poultry production, stochastic dominance

Socio-economic Determinants of Multidimensional Poverty in Rural West Bengal: A Household Level Analysis,
Poulomi Roy, Soma Ray and Sushil Haldar, in Journal of Quantitative Economics (2019)
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty, Inequality decomposition, FGT Index, Theil Index

Status and determinants of poverty and income inequality in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities: Household-based evidence from Afar Regional State, Ethiopia,
Araya M. Teka, Gabriel Temesgen Woldu and Zeremariam Fre, in World Development Perspectives (2019)
Keywords: Afar; Determinants; FGT index; Income inequality; Pastoral; Poverty;

Measuring Poverty in a Multidimensional Perspective: a Review of Literature,
Sami Bibi, from PEP-PMMA (2005)
Keywords: Multidimensional Poverty Measures, Robustness Analysis

Objective and subjective measures of fuel poverty,
Catherine Waddams Price, Karl Brazier and Wenjia Wang, in Energy Policy (2012)
Keywords: Fuel poverty; Subjective measures; Data mining;

Comparing Mechanisms to Child Outcomes from Long-Term Economic Well-Being Measured with the Official Poverty Measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure,
Gary W. Reinbold, in Child Indicators Research (2018)
Keywords: Child well-being, Poverty, Official poverty measure, Supplemental poverty measure

FGT Old†Age Poverty Measures and the Mortality Paradox: Theory and Evidence,
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere, in Review of Income and Wealth (2018)

FGT old-age poverty measures and the mortality paradox: theory and evidence,
Mathieu Lefebvre, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere, from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) (2018)

Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty,
Tony Castleman, James E. Foster and Stephen Smith, from Palgrave Macmillan (2016)
Keywords: Poverty Line, Poverty Measure, Multidimensional Poverty, South Asia, Multidimensional Poverty Index

French Poverty Measures using Fuzzy Set Approaches,
Valérie Berenger and Franck Celestini, from Springer (2006)
Keywords: Exponential Distribution, Poverty Measure, Wealth Distribution, Multidimensional Poverty, Poverty Index

Philosophical Accounts of Vagueness, Fuzzy Poverty Measures and Multidimensionality,
Mozaffar Qizilbash, from Springer (2006)
Keywords: Borderline Case, Poverty Measure, Degree Theory, Fuzzy Measure, Core Dimension

The Effect of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending,
Corinth Kevin, in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2024)
Keywords: Supplemental Poverty Measure, poverty guidelines, government assistance

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Child Poverty,
Sharmila Kurukulasuriya and Solrun Engilbertsdottir, from UNICEF, Division of Policy and Strategy (2011)
Keywords: child poverty, child disparities, policy design, measuring poverty, State of the World’s Children,Global Study on Child Poverty

The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data,
Koen Decancq, Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch and Josefine Vanhille, from Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp (2013)
Keywords: Europe, Poverty, FGT, EU-wide poverty, Concept, measurement, EU-SILC, top-bottom coding

Poverty Counts: Living with Poverty and Poverty Measures,
Sara Berry, from Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
Keywords: Social Capital, United Nations Development Programme, Poverty Measure, Cocoa Farmer, Ethnographic Observation

U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures,
Kuan Xu, from Dalhousie University, Department of Economics (2006)
Keywords: U-statistics; inequality; poverty; measures

Why is Poverty Higher in Rural America According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure? An Investigation of the Geographic Adjustment,
José D. Pacas and David W. Rothwell, in Population Research and Policy Review (2020)
Keywords: Poverty, Supplemental poverty measure, Rural, Geography

Multidimensional And Fuzzy Measures Of Poverty At Regional Level In Mozambique,
Gianni Betti, Francesca Gagliardi and Vincenzo Salvucci, in Economy of region (2014)
Keywords: poverty, regional measures, fuzzy sets, Mozambique

A Consistent Measure of Real Poverty: A Reply to Ravallion,
Thomas Pogge, from International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2008)
Keywords: Consistent Measure, Real Poverty, Reply, Ravallion

Disability Considerations for Measuring Poverty in Canada Using the Market Basket Measure,
Craig W. M. Scott, Patrick Berrigan, Ronald Kneebone and Jennifer D. Zwicker, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2022)
Keywords: Persons with disabilities, Poverty measurement, Market Basket Measure

Impacts of Policies on Poverty. Basic Poverty Measures,
Lorenzo Bellù and Paolo Liberati, from University Library of Munich, Germany (2005)
Keywords: policy impact analysis poverty measures applied policy poverty gap ratio poverty indicators public policies headcount ratio aggregation problem Lorenz curves Generalised lorenz curves axiomatic measures

Poverty Measures as Normalized Distance Functions,
S. Subramanian, in Indian Economic Review (2009)
Keywords: Distance Functions; Minkowski – a Distance; Canberra Distance; Poverty Measure; Inequality Measure; Axioms for Measurement

Measuring Poverty with Uncertain Poverty Threshold,
N. Kakwani, from New South Wales - School of Economics (1993)
Keywords: poverty

A new method for measuring historical poverty trends: Incorporating geographic differences in the cost of living using the Supplemental Poverty Measure,
Laura Nolan, Irwin Garfinkel, Neeraj Kaushal, JaeHyun Nam, Jane Waldfogel and Christopher Wimer, in Journal of Economic and Social Measurement (2016)
Keywords: Poverty measurement; Supplemental Poverty Measure; Current Population Survey

Decomposition of Rural Poverty by Demographic Context of Rural Households: The Case from Kola Agro-Ecological Zone of Humbo Woreda, Southern Ethiopia,
Feleke Yehuwalashet Motuma, in Asian Development Policy Review (2020)
Keywords: Demographic context, Decomposition of poverty, Humbo woreda, FGT index, Kola agro-ecological zone, Rural household, Rural poverty.

The Effect of Regional Price Adjustment of Household Expenditures on Poverty Indices in Iran’s Urban Areas,
Javad Arab Yarmohamadi, Esmaiel Abounoori and Ali Asghar Salem, in Journal of Money and Economy (2016)
Keywords: Sen Index, Watt Index, FGT Measures, Price Index, First Order Stochastic Dominance

Measuring poverty,
Daniel Weinberg, from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Outlook Forum (1985)
Keywords: Food Security and Poverty

A theory of multidimensional poverty measures for ordinal variables with endogenous weights,
Rodrigo Andrés Peñaloza, from Departamento de Economia da Universidade de Brasilia (2011)
Keywords: ordinal variables, multidimensional poverty measures, fuzzy sets, dual measures of variability.

A Positive Measure of Poverty,
Jonathan Morduch, from Harvard - Institute for International Development (1995)
Keywords: poverty

Measuring poverty: what's in the line?,
Alejandro Grinspun, from International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (2004)
Keywords: Poverty

Fiscal Policy, Regional Disparity and Poverty in China: a General Equilibrium Approach,
Li Wang, Xuesong Li, Wenbo Wang and Zhou Guangbao, from PEP-MPIA (2010)
Keywords: China, Regional Disparity, Fiscal Policy, Government Transfer, Preferential Policy, Poverty, CGE, FGT

Measuring Poverty,
Angus Deaton, in QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005)
Keywords: Poverty, Politics, Poverty Lines, PPP Exchange Rates, Health

The Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index: Measuring Poverty in a Public Policy Context,
Roberto Angulo, Yadira Díaz and Renata Pardo, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2016)
Keywords: Multidimensional poverty, Colombia, Alkire and Foster measures, Deprivation, Urban and rural differences

On increasing risk, inequality and poverty measures: Peacocks, lyrebirds and exotic options,
Christian-Oliver Ewald and Marc Yor, in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2015)
Keywords: Increasing risk; Inequality; Poverty measures; Peacocks;

U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures,
Kuan Xu, in Econometric Reviews (2007)
Keywords: Asymptotic theory, Inequality, Measures, Poverty, U-statistics,

Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Three Southeast Asian Countries using Ordinal Variables,
Valerie Berenger, from Asian Development Bank Institute (2016)
Keywords: poverty; measure; Southeast Asia; Cambodia; Indonesia; Philippines

Improving the Supplemental Poverty Measure: Two proposals,
John A. Bishop, Jonathan Lee and Lester A. Zeager, from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (2017)
Keywords: supplemental poverty measure, equivalence scales, spatial price index.

Measuring Poverty Efficiently Using Adaptive Deprivation Scales,
Nick Bailey, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2020)
Keywords: Poverty, Deprivation, Item response theory, Adaptive measure, Household survey

Fuzzy Measures of Longitudinal Poverty in a Comparative Perspective,
Vijay Verma, Gianni Betti and Francesca Gagliardi, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2017)
Keywords: Fuzzy sets, Longitudinal and multi-dimensional poverty measures, Comparative analysis

Cost of Living Variation, Nonmetropolitan America, and Implications for the Supplemental Poverty Measure,
J. Tom Mueller, Matthew M. Brooks and José D. Pacas, in Population Research and Policy Review (2022)
Keywords: Poverty, Cost of living, Supplemental poverty measure, Transportation, Housing costs

The Effects of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending,
Kevin Corinth, from American Enterprise Institute (2023)
Keywords: Congress, Poverty, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Supplemental Poverty Measure

Fuzzy Monetary Poverty Measures under a Dagum Income Distributive Hypothesis,
Gianni Betti, Antonella D’Agostino and Achille Lemmi, from Springer (2008)
Keywords: Income Distribution, Poverty Line, Lorenz Curve, Poverty Measure, Wealth Distribution

Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measures of Poverty and Inequality in Turkey at National and Regional Level,
Gianni Betti, Güllü Çalik and Murat Karakaş, from Springer (2013)
Keywords: Lorenz Curve, Poverty Measurement, Fuzzy Measure, Multidimensional Poverty, Equivalised Income

Spatial Dimensions of Income Inequality and Poverty in Bangladesh: An Analysis of the 2005 Household Income and Expenditure Survey Data,
Kazi Zaman and Takahiro Akita, from Research Institute, International University of Japan (2011)
Keywords: Income Inequality, Poverty, Spatial Dimensions, Theil Index, Gini Coefficient, FGT Index, Bangladesh

POVERTY: AN OUTLINE OF POLICIES OF POVERTY IN MEXICO AND LATINAMERICA (2000-2006),
Ph. D. Oscar González Muñoz, in Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) (2015)
Keywords: poverty, measure poverty, policy public.

Distribution-sensitivity of rank-dependent poverty measures,
Kristof Bosmans, in Journal of Mathematical Economics (2014)
Keywords: Poverty; Distribution-sensitivity; Rank-dependent poverty measures; Inequality aversion; Risk aversion;

The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke Poverty Measures Reveal More,
Tomson Ogwang, in Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement (2022)
Keywords: Foster–Greer–Thorbecke poverty measures, Augmented three i’s of poverty, Multiplicative decomposition, Additive decomposition, Skewness, Kurtosis

Poverty Decomposition in Incidence, Intensity and Inequality. A Review,
Oihana Aristondo, in Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics (2018)
Keywords: Poverty measures, inequality measures, decomposition.

The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty,
François Bourguignon and Satya Chakravarty, in The Journal of Economic Inequality (2003)
Keywords: multidimensional, poverty measure,