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The Social Welfare Implications, Decomposability, and Geometry of the Sen Family of Poverty Indices Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Kuan Xu
Lars Osberg () (Department of Economics, Dalhousie University)
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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 similar geometric interpretations, easy numerical computation, and common subgroup decompositions. These results are useful to policy analysis.
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Keywords: Poverty Intensity ; Poverty Rate ; Poverty Gap ; Sugroup Decomposition ; Equally-Distributed-Equivalent-Income ; Social Evaluation Function ; Gini Index ; Other versions of this item:
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