The Social Welfare Implications, Decomposability, and Geometry of the Sen Family of Poverty Indices

This paper proposes a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity, which shows an explicit connection between the indices and the common underlying social evaluation function. This paper also identifies the common multiplicative decomposition of the indices that allows simple and similar geometric interpretations, easy numerical computation, and common subgroup decompositions. These results are useful to policy analysis.

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Year of publication:	2000-10-27
Authors:	Xu, Kuan ; Osberg, Lars
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Dalhousie University
Subject:	Poverty Intensity \| Poverty Rate \| Poverty Gap \| Sugroup Decomposition \| Equally-Distributed-Equivalent-Income \| Social Evaluation Function \| Gini Index

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	27 pages
Classification:	E31 - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation ; E52 - Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects)
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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