NDLI: Poverty measures incorporating variable rate of alleviation due to population growth

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Mukherjee, Diganta
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? Issues like lack of scale homogeneity in resource allocation for poverty eradication lead practitioners and economists to have two different views of poverty when population size changes. This paper attempts to put these two conceptions of poverty into a common framework. We present an axiomatic development of a family of poverty measures, which is a generalization of the well known FGT class of measures, without a population replication axiom. This family has an intuitive link to standard measures, but it also allows intermediate positions between one or other of “the absolute numbers” or the “fraction in poverty” conception. We hope that this family will prove useful in empirical and policy work.
Starting Page	97
Ending Page	107
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01761714
Journal	Social Choice and Welfare
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1432217X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-08-28
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Economics general Economic Theory
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences Economics and Econometrics

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Poverty measures incorporating variable rate of alleviation due to population growth