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Polarization of the Poor: Multivariate Relative Poverty Measurement Sans Frontiers

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  • Gordon Anderson
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    A major impediment to poverty evaluation in multivariate environments are the difficulties associated with formulating poverty frontiers. This paper proposes a new multivariate polarization measure which, in appropriate circumstances, works as a multivariate poverty measure which does not require computation of a poverty frontier. As a poverty measure it has the intuitive appeal of reflecting the degree to which societies poor and non-poor are polarized. (The measure would also have considerable application in studying multivariate convergence issues in economic growth models). The measure is exemplified in a poor-non poor country study over the period 1990-2005 based upon the joint distribution of per capita GNP and Life Expectancy. The results suggest that as a group the world’s poor are experiencing diminished poverty polarization, however within the world’s poor the African Nations are experiencing increased poverty polarization.

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    Paper provided by University of Toronto, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number tecipa-366.

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    Length: 33 pages
    Date of creation: 06 Aug 2009
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    Handle: RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-366

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    Keywords: Multivariate Poverty Measurement; Polarization;

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