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Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

In: Social Values and Social Indicators

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  • S. Subramanian

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Abstract

In a heterogeneous population which can be partitioned into well-defined subgroups, it is plausible that the extent of measured aggregate poverty should depend upon the distribution of poverty across the subgroups. In particular, a judgement against an unequal inter-group distribution of poverty can be upheld as an intrinsic social virtue. The aggregate measure of poverty, in line with this view, would then lend itself to ‘penal adjustment’ in order to reflect the extent of inter-group disparity in the distribution of poverty that obtains. In the present paper, this approach to poverty measurement is examined with specific reference to the advancement of a diagrammatic aid to analysis called the group poverty profile. The latter is a virtual transplantation, to the present context, of the notion of a deprivation profile that has been explored and analysed by A. F. Shorrocks in a different context (‘Deprivation Profiles and Deprivation Indices’, in S. Jenkins, A. Kapteyn and B. Vaan Praag (eds.): The Distributions of Welfare and Household Production: International Perspectives, Cambridge University Press: London, 1996).

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  • S. Subramanian, 2021. "Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty," Themes in Economics, in: Social Values and Social Indicators, chapter 0, pages 99-109, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:thechp:978-981-16-0428-7_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7_9
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