Poverty Rankings of Opportunity Profiles

Vito Peragine, Ernesto Savaglio () and Stefano Vannucci ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

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', extend the most widely used income poverty criteria to opportunity profiles, and provide characterizations of a few poverty rankings that rely on such criteria.

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)
Date: 2008-11
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Working Paper: Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles (2009)
Working Paper: POVERTY RANKINGS OF OPPORTUNITY PROFILES (2009)
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