New perspectives on a more-or-less familiar poverty index, with extensions

A particular scale-invariant index of poverty is subjected to careful analysis. This leads to a new perspective, not seen before, on the family of subgroup-consistent and scale-invariant poverty indices. Parametric families of new poverty indices are presented which offer the analyst a degree of flexibility in the choice of transfer sensitivity and distribution sensitivity which has not been available before now.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Bosmans, Kristof ; Esposito, Lucio ; Lambert, Peter
Institutions:	Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ
Subject:	Poverty measurement \| Distributional properties

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 116 13 pages
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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