The Gini Coefficient and Poverty Indexes: Some Reconciliations

DOI10.2307/2289082zbMath0615.62147OpenAlexW4236149851MaRDI QIDQ4723126

Pranab Kumar Sen

Publication date: 1986

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2289082

zbMATH Keywords

income distributionGini coefficientincome inequalitytotal time on test transformrobustness criterionpoverty indexesTakayama poverty index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics (62P99) Mathematical economics (91B99)

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