RECKONING INTER‐GROUP POVERTY DIFFERENTIALS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF AGGREGATE POVERTY

S Subramanian

Pacific Economic Review, 2009, vol. 14, issue 1, 46-55

Abstract: Abstract. It is plausible that the extent of measured aggregate poverty should depend upon the distribution of poverty across a population's subgroups. The aggregate measure of poverty would then lend itself to ‘penal adjustment’ to reflect the extent of inter‐group disparity in the distribution of poverty. In the present paper, this approach to poverty measurement is examined by advancing a diagrammatic aid to analysis called the group poverty profile. The latter is a virtual transplantation, to the present context, of the notion of a deprivation profile that has been explored and analysed by Shorrocks (1996) in a different context.

Date: 2009
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