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Ethical Indices for the Measurement of Poverty
Abstract
ordinal approach to welfare comparisons. Given a poverty line, a priori, this index has several appealing properties: (i) it can be computed using readily available information, (ii) it is sensitive to the percentage of the population that is below the line (the head-count ratio), (iii) it depends on the income of the average poor person, and (iv) it depends on the amount of inequality among the poor themselves. In this note, we offer an alternative interpretation and a generalization of Sen's index as an index. These are indices, usually of inequality, that are exact for social evaluation functions. Each index is thus implied by and implies at least one social evaluation function. Essential to the construction of these ethical indices is the notion of the
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- Authors
- Blackorby, C., & Donaldson, D.
- Venue
- Econometrica
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1980-05
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1053
- ISSN
- 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
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- W2021195191
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- 252
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 61.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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