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Poverty and Time

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  • Walter Bossert

    () (Department of Economics and CIREQ, University of Montreal)

  • Satya R. Chakravarty

    () (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

  • Conchita D’Ambrosio

    () (Università di Milano-Bicocca, DIW Berlin and Econpubblica, Università Bocconi)

Abstract

We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. In contrast to earlier contributions, we assign importance to the persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a class of individual intertemporal poverty measures reflecting this feature. In addition, we axiomatize an aggregation procedure to obtain intertemporal poverty measures for entire societies and we illustrate our new indices with an application to EU countries.

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Paper provided by ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality in its series Working Papers with number 87.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: 2008
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Handle: RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2008-87

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Keywords: Intertemporal Poverty Measurement; Equity;

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  1. Blackorby, C. & Bossert, W. & Donaldson, D., 1999. "Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice," UBC Departmental Archives 99-20, UBC Department of Economics.
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  1. It is difficult to measure poverty
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2010-09-08 14:42:00
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  1. Olga Cantó & Carlos Gradín & Coral del Río, 2010. "Pobreza crónica, transitoria y recurrente en España," Working Papers 1003, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Economía Aplicada.
  2. Walter Bossert & Lidia Ceriani & Satya R. Chakravarty & Conchita D'Ambrosio, 2012. "Intertemporal Material Deprivation," Cahiers de recherche 07-2012, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ.
  3. Aaron Nicholas & Ranjan Ray, 2011. "Duration and Persistence in Multidimensional Deprivation: Methodology and Australian Application," Monash Economics Working Papers 10-11, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  4. Carlos Gradín & Coral del Río & Olga Cantó, 2010. "Measuring poverty accounting for time," Working Papers 169, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.

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