A class of generalized Sen poverty indices

Buhong Zheng

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 159, issue C, 100-103

Abstract: Utilizing results from partial poverty orderings, we characterize a class of generalized Sen poverty indices. A generalized Sen poverty index is defined as the weighted area between the line of zero-poverty and the censored generalized Lorenz curve. Unlike the original Sen index, the generalized Sen index can satisfy the key axioms for poverty measurement.

Keywords: Poverty measurement; Sen poverty index; Gini index; Generalized Sen poverty index; Censored generalized Lorenz curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.07.024

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