Journal Article Real National Income Get access Amartya Sen Amartya Sen London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, February 1976, Pages 19–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296597 Published: 01 February 1976 Article history Received: 01 October 1974 Accepted: 01 May 1975 Published: 01 February 1976

The primary aim of this paper is to propose a new measure of poverty, which should avoid some of the shortcomings of the measures currently in use. An axiomatic approach is used to derive the measure. The conception of welfare in the axiom set is ordinal. The information requirement for the new measure is quite limited, permitting practical use.

Mukul Majumdar, Amartya Sen; A Note on Representing Partial Orderings, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 43, Issue 3, 1 October 1976, Pages 543–545, https: