caa a22 4500 467916950 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-7156-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-7156-1 Medeiros Marcelo International Poverty Centre - Undp/Ipea, SBS 01-J-1001, 70.076-900, Brasilia, DF, Brazil aut The Rich and the Poor: The Construction of an Affluence Line from the Poverty Line [Elektronische Daten] [Marcelo Medeiros] The paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate an affluence line that depends on the knowledge of the income distribution and the poverty line for a given population. The idea that poverty is morally unacceptable and can be eradicated through redistribution of wealth provides the grounds for the methodology. The line is defined as the value that delimitates the aggregated income required to eradicate poverty by the way of transfers from the rich to the poor. I estimate an affluence line using Brazilian 1999 National Household Survey data and briefly discuss the results. Springer, 2006 affluence nationallicence poverty nationallicence rich nationallicence social inequality nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-08-01), 1-18 0303-8300 78:1<1 2006 78 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-7156-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-7156-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Medeiros Marcelo International Poverty Centre - Undp/Ipea, SBS 01-J-1001, 70.076-900, Brasilia, DF, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-08-01), 1-18 0303-8300 78:1<1 2006 78 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer