BOSSERT, Walter; CHAKRAVARTY, Satya R.; D’AMBROSIO, … - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2008
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 …