Unit-consistent poverty indices

DOI10.1007/S00199-006-0085-7MaRDI QIDQ868426zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Buhong Zheng

Publication date 5 March 2007

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-006-0085-7

zbMATH Keywords

decomposabilityscale invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Review text

This paper characterizes unit-consistent poverty indices. The author considers two general ways of poverty measurement; the semi-individualistic framework and Dalton-Hagenaars framework. Some comparisons are given.

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