Kanji, Gopal; Chopra, Parvesh - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 9, pp. 1135-1158
Since Sen's (1976) paper on poverty measurement, a substantial literature, both theoretical and empirical, has emerged. There have been several recent efforts to drive poverty measures based on different approaches and axioms. These poverty indices are based on head count ratio, poverty gaps and...