New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index

Bosmans, Kristof, Esposito, Lucio and Lambert, Peter (2011) New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index. Social Choice and Welfare, 36 (2). pp. 241-247. ISSN 0176-1714

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Abstract

In this article, we examine some properties and extensions of a particular poverty index, which is already passingly familiar to poverty analysts. Our investigation leads to a new perspective on the family of additively decomposable and scale-invariant poverty indices and provides new insights into the class of poverty measures proposed by Foster et al. (Econometrica 52:761–766, 1984). Finally, our work leads to a clarification of the different roles of transfer properties and distribution sensitivity in poverty measurement.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2011 11:42
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2023 23:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/18622
DOI:	10.1007/s00355-010-0473-6

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