Full Text / Article completTwo axioms in the measurement of inequality and poverty which are widely perceived to be innocuous and unexceptionable - although they have both been challenged in the literature - are the Scale Invariance Axiom and the Replication Invariance Axiom. These axioms have endorsed an essentially relative approach (with respect to income-size and population-size respectively) to the measurement of inequality and poverty. The present paper is an expository essay which aims to clarify the logical and ethical limitations of either a purely relative or a purely absolute approach to distributional measurement. In the process, it also reviews two proposals - due to Manfred Krtscha and Eduardo Arriaga respectively - for ‘inter...
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a ...
If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has...
We argue that normative indices of multidimensional inequality do not only measure a distribution's ...
Full Text / Article completTwo axioms in the measurement of inequality and poverty which are widely ...
Usual indexes of inequality, in particular the poverty ratio, are relative indexes which reflect inc...
This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and pover...
We introduce an axiomatic framework to analyze the perception of inequality across distributions wit...
This article provides an overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and shows how theoreti...
Inequality is a broader concept than poverty in that it is defined over the entire population, and d...
The present paper is a selective overview, very considerably based on work in which the author himse...
[Excerpt] The comparison of alternative patterns of family income distribution, as in most social we...
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty ...
This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indic...
The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to...
This paper presents a review of the main available indicators to measure poverty and income inequali...
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a ...
If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has...
We argue that normative indices of multidimensional inequality do not only measure a distribution's ...
Full Text / Article completTwo axioms in the measurement of inequality and poverty which are widely ...
Usual indexes of inequality, in particular the poverty ratio, are relative indexes which reflect inc...
This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and pover...
We introduce an axiomatic framework to analyze the perception of inequality across distributions wit...
This article provides an overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and shows how theoreti...
Inequality is a broader concept than poverty in that it is defined over the entire population, and d...
The present paper is a selective overview, very considerably based on work in which the author himse...
[Excerpt] The comparison of alternative patterns of family income distribution, as in most social we...
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty ...
This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indic...
The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to...
This paper presents a review of the main available indicators to measure poverty and income inequali...
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different groups. This is a ...
If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has...
We argue that normative indices of multidimensional inequality do not only measure a distribution's ...