A Survey on Poverty Indicators? Features and Axioms

In September building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and sum-mits, world leaders came together at the United Nations Headquarter in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets with a deadline of that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals MDGsOne of the most important targets of MDGs relates to ending poverty and hunger. For instance, Target is set to halve, between and the proportion of people whose income is less than a day. This study aims to summarize the essence of some major poverty indices and relating axioms to con-tribute to worldwide poverty reduction from academic aspects, surveying relevant literatures