A Family of Unit Consistent Multidimensional Poverty Indices

Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D’Ambrosio ()
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Conchita D’Ambrosio: Université du Luxembourg
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A chapter in Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance, 2019, pp 109-122 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper characterizes a family of subgroup decomposable unit consistent multidimensional poverty indices. Unit consistency requires that poverty rankings should remain unaltered when dimensions are expressed in different measurement units. The characterized family is a simple generalization of a family of unit consistent income poverty index suggested by Zheng (Economic Theory 31:113–142, 2007b). The paper also illustrates the index numerically using Turkish data. Journal of Economic Literature Classification No.: D63.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty measurement; Unit consistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-3432-0_8

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