The Bourguignon and Chakravarty multidimensional poverty family: A characterization

Mª Casilda Lasso de la Vega (), Ana Urrutia and Henar Diez
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Mª Casilda Lasso de la Vega: University of the Basque Country
Ana Urrutia: University of the Basque Country
Henar Diez: University of the Basque Country

No 109, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The family of multidimensional poverty indices introduced by Bourguignon and Chakravarty (Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003) has attracted a great deal of interest in the field of poverty measurement. In this note we explore a number of properties fulfilled by the members of this family, related to both the way to aggregate, for each individual, the deprivations in the various attributes, and the procedure for combining the individuals’ overall deprivations. Then we show that the properties we highlight characterize the functional form of the family.

Keywords: multidimensional poverty indices; Bourguignon and Chakravarty family; deprivation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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