DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY

Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable...

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Year of publication:	2000-12-20
Authors:	Muller, Christophe
Institutions:	University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics
Subject:	Evolution \| development \| Spieltheorie \| game theory \| Armutsbekämpfung \| Armut \| poverty

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Extent:	555008 bytes 23 p. application/pdf
Series:	The University of Nottingham / School of Economics - discussion papers Discussion Paper ; No. 01/03
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
ISSN:	1360-2438
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; Specific management methods ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Market research ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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