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The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to … use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as …-based composite indicator. Our method generates robust and trustworthy measurements based on a meaningful conceptual model of poverty …
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This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...
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According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …
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