Poverty measures and poverty orderings

  1. Sordo Díaz, Miguel Angel
  2. Ramos Romero, Héctor Manuel
  3. Ramos González, Carmen Dolores
Revista:
Sort: Statistics and Operations Research Transactions

ISSN: 1696-2281

Año de publicación: 2007

Volumen: 31

Número: 2

Páginas: 169-180

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

We examine the conditions under which unanimous poverty rankings of income distributions can be obtained for a general class of poverty indices. The �per-capita income gap� and the Shorrocks and Thon poverty measures are particular members of this class. The conditions of dominance are stated in terms of comparisons of the corresponding TIP curves and areas.

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