Chattopadhyay, Amit K.; Mallick, Sushanta K. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 377 (2007) 1, pp. 241-252
Using a modified deprivation (or poverty) function, in this paper, we theoretically study the changes in poverty with respect to the ‘global’ mean and variance of the income distribution using Indian survey data. We show that when the income obeys a log-normal distribution, a rising mean...