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 stated in ter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Sordo, Miguel A., Ramos, H.M., Ramos, C.D.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/8914
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2099/8914
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematical economics
Distribution (Probability theory)
Poverty measure
Poverty ordering
TIP curve
Matemàtica financera
Distribució (Teoria de la probabilitat)
Classificació AMS::91 Game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences::91B Mathematical economics
Classificació AMS::60 Probability theory and stochastic processes::60E Distribution theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica financera
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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.