The Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty: the Case of Italy in the 1990s

Gianni Betti, Bruno Cheli, Achille Lemmi and Vijay Verma

Chapter 2 in Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, 2008, pp 30-48 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Most of the methods designed for the analysis of poverty share two main limitations: (i) they are unidimensional, i.e. refer to only one proxy of poverty such as low income or consumption expenditure; (ii) they need to dichotomize the population into the poor and the non-poor by means of the so-called poverty line.

Keywords: Membership Function; Fuzzy Approach; Fuzzy Measure; Multidimensional Poverty; Income Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582354_2

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