Poverty Measurement

Antonio Villar

Chapter Chapter 7 in Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare, 2017, pp 115-134 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter refers to the measurement of poverty, focusing on objective poverty measures, referred to a single period, taking “income” as the key reference variable and using a relative poverty line to define who are the poor. It also discusses multidimensional (objective) poverty measures. Following the standard approach, a poverty index is conceptualised as a function that combines three different aspects of poverty: Incidence (how many poor people are in society), Intensity (how poor they are) and Inequality (how unequal are the poor). We also refer here to some measures of deprivation and non-monetary poverty indicators.

Keywords: Poverty Measure; Multidimensional Poverty; Poverty Index; Poverty Threshold; Inequality Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45562-4_7

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