Atkinson, Anthony B.; Brandolini, Andrea - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
measurement of poverty. There are three reasons why we feel that a re-examination is necessary: (i) the extent of global income … have to reconcile measures of world inequality and world poverty; and (iii) we need to explore more fully the different … ways in which measures may be relative or absolute. This leads us to propose a new measure, which (a) combines poverty and …