Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles

Vito Peragine (), Ernesto Savaglio () and Stefano Vannucci ()
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Vito Peragine: DSE, University of Bari, CHILD & GRASS
Stefano Vannucci: DEP, University of Siena, & GRASS

No 115, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the Opportunity-Gap poverty rankings, which are the natural counterparts of the most widely used income poverty indices.

Keywords: Poverty; opportunity sets; head-count; poverty-gap. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written

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Working Paper: POVERTY RANKINGS OF OPPORTUNITY PROFILES (2009)
Working Paper: Poverty Rankings of Opportunity Profiles (2008)
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