Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups

Massimo Civardi () and Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ()
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Massimo Civardi: Università di Milano-Bicocca

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2008, vol. 116, issue 3, 305-320

Abstract: In this paper we propose a decomposition of the Foster, Greer, Thorbecke (FGT) class of poverty indices into two components (namely, poverty within groups and poverty between groups) when both a community-wide threshold and a specific poverty line for each subgroup of population is used. The aim is to suggest an integrated perspective that takes into account both poverty within a specific subgroup of the population and poverty between different subgroups. This allows us to throw light on the relative well-being conditions of specific subgroups of the population as well as of society as a whole. The paper also includes an empirical application of the suggested methodology based on the European Community Household Panel

Keywords: Poverty measurement; FGT index; group-specific poverty lines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Working Paper: Measuring poverty within and between population subgroups (2006)
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