Population replications and ethical poverty measurement

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(90)90003-PMaRDI QIDQ2641208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Bossert

Publication date 1990

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(90)90003-p

zbMATH Keywords

ethical poverty measuresreplication invariance conditionsocial evaluation functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Social choice (91B14) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Review text

This paper provides some insights concerning the underlying foundations of two classes of ethical poverty measures: one is a class of relative and the other a class of absolute measures of poverty. It is shown that these classes of indices can be axiomatized by using, among other properties, a replication invariance condition imposed on social evaluation functions.

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