Poverty measures and poverty orderings

We examine the conditions under which unanimous poverty rankings of income distributions can be obtained for a general class of poverty indices. The "per-capita income gap" and the Shorrocks and Thon poverty measures are particular members of this class. The conditions of dominance are sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Sordo Díaz, Miguel Ángel, Ramos, Héctor M., Ramos, Carmen D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:97488
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/97488
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Poverty measure
Poverty ordering
TIP curve
Descripción
Sumario:We examine the conditions under which unanimous poverty rankings of income distributions can be obtained for a general class of poverty indices. The "per-capita income gap" and the Shorrocks and Thon poverty measures are particular members of this class. The conditions of dominance are stated in terms of comparisons of the corresponding TIP curves and areas.