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Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles

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Vito Peragine () (DSE, University of Bari, CHILD & GRASS)
Ernesto Savaglio () (DMQTE, University ‘G.D’Annunzio’ of Pescara, DEP, University of Siena, & GRASS.)
Stefano Vannucci () (DEP, University of Siena, & GRASS)

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We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the Opportunity-Gap poverty rankings, which are the natural counterparts of the most widely used income poverty indices.

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Paper provided by ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality in its series Working Papers with number 115.

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Keywords: Poverty; opportunity sets; head-count; poverty-gap.;

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D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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