This paper introduces a measure of distribution-sensitivity, which is similar to Arrow-Pratt's measure of risk aversion, for a poverty index. The measure also gauges poverty aversion and has a clear and straightforward interpretation. Using this measure, we can define various classes of minimum distribution-sensitive poverty indices. We show that the ordering condition for such a class of pover...

Sohrab Effati Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, P.O. Box 917751159, Mashhad, Iran and Center of Excellence on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Processing (SCIIP), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran [email protected] Alireza Nazemi∗ Department of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Shahrood University, P.O. Box 3619995161-316, S...

F. ESMAEELZADEH∗,‡, R. A. KAMYABI GOL†,§ and R. RAISI TOUSI∗,¶ ∗Department of Pure Mathematics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad P. O. Box 1159-91775, Mashhad, Iran †Department of Pure Mathematics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Center of Excellence in Analysis on Algebraic Structures (CEAAS) P. O. Box 1159-91775, Mashhad, Iran ‡[email protected] §[email protected] ¶raisi...

Inequality still becomes popular issue in the establishment of developing countries. Aside from income inequality, human development inequality is considered as an interesting topic for further study, terms resuming solution. The purpose this study specific identifying gap between origin and new regencies Eastern Indonesia well determinant. This uses a positivist perspective with deductive appr...

This paper investigates the impact of economic growth and more specifically robust economic growth along with other macroeconomic determinants on poverty levels using both the U.S. official measure of poverty and an estimated time series of Sen indices of poverty. The results reveal that the period of robust economic expansion that the U.S. economy experienced during the 1990s did not have a si...

Aphorisms that “rising tides raise all boats” or that material advances of the rich eventually “trickle down” to the poor are really maxims regarding the nature of stochastic processes that underlay the income/wellbeing paths of groups of individuals. This paper looks at the implications for the empirical analysis of wellbeing of conventional assumptions regarding such processes which are emplo...

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of endogeneous switching regression, and is fitted using simulated maximum likelihood methods. The estimate...

In this paper, our overall goal is to understand how effective access to infrastructure is in reducing poverty in PNG. To meet this goal, we examine poverty in PNG, and seek to show the relationship between poverty and access to infrastructure and then identify the determinants of poverty. In our analysis, we test whether or not access to infrastructure is a significant factor in a household's ...