Israeli, Osnat; Weber, Michal - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1496-1508
This paper uses the Watts poverty index in order to derive a breakdown of poverty into chronic and transitory poverty … poverty, and is affected more by the intensity (depth) of poverty than by inequality among the poor, while transitory poverty … among the poor (i.e. the mean logarithm deviation index of income inequality among the poor) to chronic and transitory …