Econometrica Vol. 63 No. 5 1995
Revisiting the Sen Poverty Index
Abstract
A modification of the official Sen poverty index yields an index which is not only continous in individual incomes and consistent with the transfer axiom, but also admits a geometric interpretation in terms of the area beneath a graph called the inverse generalized Lorenz curve for normalized poverty gaps by Jenkins and Lambert (1993) or the poverty gap profile by Shorrocks (1994).
- DOI
- 10.2307/2171728
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1225
- Sources
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