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A Fuzzy Approach to Poverty Measurement

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Diego Caramuta (CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Sur)
Federico Contiggiani (CONICET & Universidad Nacional del Sur)

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Abstract

This paper postulate two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this paper postulates that fuzzy version of poverty measures will not satisfy the transfer axiom.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series HEW with number 0507001.

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Date of creation: 06 Jul 2005
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Keywords: Poverty Measurement; Fuzzy Sets;

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I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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