Belhadj, Besma - In: Research in Economics 65 (2011) 3, pp. 221-231
In order to avoid a rigid poor/non-poor dichotomy (see e.g. Hagenaars, 1986), the fuzzy sets approach to poverty measurement has been used. The aim of this paper is to propose fuzzy measures of unidimensional and multidimensional poverty by distinguishing three levels of poverty. A...