On measuring deprivation adjusted for group disparities

S. Subramanian () and Manabi Majumdar ()
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S. Subramanian: Madras Institute of Development Studies, 79, Second Main Road, Gandhinagar, Adyar, Chennai - 600 020, Tamilnadu, India
Manabi Majumdar: Madras Institute of Development Studies, 79, Second Main Road, Gandhinagar, Adyar, Chennai - 600 020, Tamilnadu, India

Social Choice and Welfare, 2002, vol. 19, issue 2, 265-280

Abstract: This paper is concerned to present a procedure for `adjusting' a real-valued index of deprivation in such a way that the resulting measure is a summary statistic of both the average level of deprivation and the extent of inequality which obtains in its distribution.

Date: 2002-04-10
Note: Received: 1 February 1999/Accepted: 9 October 2000
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