Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement

Sen, Amartya

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“…I'll discuss them in the context of the current paper in Section 3. It will be shown that the measure proposed in this paper satisfies the "ethical" properties proposed by Sen (1976Sen ( , 1992. We will closely follow the formulation in FGT(1984) and extend their ideas towards a more direct measure that can measure poverty and target efficiency of public transfer systems simultaneously.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…Properties of P α (.) Sen (1976Sen ( , 1992 proposed two axioms for an "ethical measure" of poverty to satisfy:…”

Section: Clearly Z I Is a Function Of W Q X Q I I I Imentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An appropriate notion of income for the purpose of poverty measurement has always been an area of major debate in the poverty measurement literature (Sen (1976(Sen ( , 1992, Atkinson (1987)). Adequate income is needed to buy goods and services enough to maintain a living standard considered normatively minimally acceptable.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such minimum income is usually called the "poverty line." But once we fix the poverty line at any level, the measurement of poverty is relatively straightforward (Sen (1976(Sen ( , 1992, FGT (1984)). For example, in the head count measure of poverty it just involves counting the people below the poverty line and expressing it as a fraction of the total population.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, in a developed country the USA, publicly subsidized housing and medical services are quite prevalent (Grigsby & Bourassa 2003.) Sen (1976Sen ( , 1992 proposed some properties that an "ethical" measure of poverty should satisfy. I'll discuss them in the context of the current paper in Section 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures with Public Transfers

Ray

2009

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This paper proposes a class of decomposable poverty measures. It incorporates ideas of flexible minimum basic requirement norms, relative deprivation and the presence of public transfer systems. Public transfers oftentimes take the form of implicit transfers and are not usually reflected in the reported income figures. Depending on the access and usage of public transfer systems, real consumption possibility can be very different for different individuals. This paper demonstrates that a poverty measure can be used in a straightforward manner to derive a metric to evaluate the efficiency of the public transfer systems to reach their intended targets. Some of the policy implications are also provided.I am grateful to Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, James Foster, and Anindya Bhattacharya for useful comments and discussions. I am responsible for all remaining errors.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…Properties of P α (.) Sen (1976Sen ( , 1992 proposed two axioms for an "ethical measure" of poverty to satisfy:…”

Section: Clearly Z I Is a Function Of W Q X Q I I I Imentioning

confidence: 99%