Econometrica Vol. 48 No. 2 1980
On a Class of Poverty Measures
Abstract
[This paper provides a generalization of Sen's poverty measure. The generalization is motivated by the failure of Sen's poverty measure to satisfy some transfer-sensitivity axioms proposed in this paper. A numerical method of computing the alternative poverty measures is provided along with an illustration based on the data from the Australian household expenditure survey carried out during 1974.]
- DOI
- 10.2307/1911106
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 437
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex