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

In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity that shows an explicit connection between the indices and the common underlying social evaluation function. We also identify the common multiplicative decomposition of the indices that allows simple and similar geometric interpretations and easy numerical computation

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Xu, Kuan ; Osberg, Lars
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Theorie \| Theory \| Sozialer Indikator \| Social indicator \| Indexberechnung \| Index construction \| Aggregation

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (15 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 35, pp. 138-152, 2002
Classification:	C00 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods. General ; H00 - Public Economics. General ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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