We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the OpportunityGap poverty rankings, which are the natural counterparts of the most widely use...

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show, first, that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence of adaptation within a poverty spel...

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economic globalization has been formed through last five centries, during which more developed counties in attempt 5 gain profits, influence and more economic lejemony dominated some states and developed their trade, economic and productive activifies. in recent years due 5 technological progress and specially liberalization polies through the world, there has been more progress everywhere. glo...

The way poverty is measured is important for an understanding of what has happened to poverty as well as for anti-poverty policy evaluation. Sen’s (1976) pathfinding work has motivated many researchers to focus on the way poverty should be measured. A poverty measure, argued by Sen, should satisfy certain properties or axioms and the desirability of a poverty measure should be evaluated by thes...

Preface This report presents an up-to-date analysis of poverty patterns and trends in Ghana, based on the results of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS). The GLSS is a multi-topic household survey, designed to provide comprehensive information on the living standards of Ghanaian households. So far, four rounds have been completed each round covering a nationally representative sample of ho...