In this paper, we propose a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity that shows an explicit connection between the indices and the common underlying social evaluation function. We also identify the common multiplicative decomposition of the indices that allows simple and...

How did rapid growth in per capita income and rising income inequality during 1991–2000 in China affect the health status of Chinese children, given that the disappearance in the 1990s of subsidized food coupons simultaneously increased the importance of money income in enabling consumption of...

In this paper we discuss the axiomatic approach to poverty measures and propose a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity which shows an explicit connection between the indices and their common underlying social evaluation function. We also identify the common multiplicative...

This paper proposes a unified framework for the Sen indices of poverty intensity, which shows an explicit connection between the indices and the common underlying social evaluation function. This paper also identifies the common multiplicative decomposition of the indices that allows simple and...

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios....