An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets

Satya Chakravarty

A chapter in Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance, 2019, pp 123-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Often it may be difficult to judge the poverty/deprivation status of a person in a dimension of human wellbeing. An appropriate technique to evaluate poverty in such a situation is fuzzy set theory. This paper develops an axiomatic approach to the measurement of multidimensional poverty in a fuzzy set up. Rigorous discussion on a fuzzy membership function that determines the poverty position of a person in a dimension is presented. Fuzzy translations of multidimensional poverty axioms are formulated and analyzed with perfections. Fuzzy counterparts of several multidimensional poverty indices are suggested.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty; Fuzzy set approach; Membership function; Axioms; Indices; Characterization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-3432-0_9

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