A Fuzzy Approach to Poverty Measurement

This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this paper postulates that fuzzy version of poverty measures will not satisfy the transfer axiom.

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Year of publication:	2005-07-06
Authors:	Caramuta, Diego ; Contiggiani, Federico
Institutions:	EconWPA
Subject:	Poverty Measurement \| Fuzzy Sets

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	HEW.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Type of Document - pdf; pages: 20 20 pages
Classification:	I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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