Poverty and Time

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we axiomatize an aggregation procedure to obtain intertemporal poverty measures for entire societies and we illustrate our new indices with an application to EU countries.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Bossert, Walter ; Chakravarty, Satya R. ; Conchita D’Ambrosio
Institutions:	Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ
Subject:	Intertemporal Poverty Measurement \| Equity

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 87 23 pages
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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