Modelling the Distribution of Multidimensional Poverty Scores: Evidence from Mexico

Valérie Berenger, Cuauhtemoc Calderon Villarreal () and Franck Celestini
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Valérie Berenger: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Franck Celestini: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Estudios Económicos, 2009, vol. 24, issue 1, 3-34

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to explore a new methodology already developed by Berenger and Celestini (2006). This theoretical method based on fuzzy sets approach makes it possible to define a multidimensional poverty score lying, as for income, between 0 and infinity in order to characterize the organization of poverty. This method is applied using the data from the XII Census of Mexico, 2000 (INEGI). The results obtained enable us to build a typology of poverty. And we derive public policy implications.

Keywords: fuzzy sets approach; multidimensional measures of poverty; unsatisfied basic needs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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