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Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement

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Subramanian, S.
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This paper points to some elementary conflicts between the claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice as they manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly desirable properties. It indicates how ?group-sensitive? poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ?Gender Adjusted Human Development Index? and the Subramanian-Majumdar (2002) ?Group-Disparity Adjusted Deprivation Index?, may be constructed. Some properties of a specific ?group-sensitive? poverty index are appraised, and the advantage of having a ?flexible? measure which is capable of effecting a tradeoff between the claims of interpersonal and inter-group equality is spelt out. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and anti-poverty policy are also discussed.

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series Working Papers with number UNU-WIDER Research Paper RP2004/59.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Keywords: poverty; measurement; social groups; symmetry; transfer; subgroup sensitivity;

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  1. Chiappero-Martinetti, Enrica & Civardi, Marisa, 2006. "Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups," IRISS Working Paper Series 2006-06, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD. [Downloadable!]
  2. Subramanian, S., 2005. "Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty," Working Papers RP2005/59, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]
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