A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures

François Bourguignon and Satya Chakravarty

DELTA Working Papers from DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure)

Abstract: Relatively little research has been conducted until now on the multidimensional aspect of poverty measurement, that is poverty mesaures defined on various income and non-income attributes and their gaps with respect to pre-specified subsitence levels. The present paper investigates the properties of a family of poverty measures introduced by Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) by aggregating the relative shortfalls of the various attributes from their respective subsistence quantities into a constant elasticity of substitution function.

Keywords: POVERTY; MEASUREMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 1998
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Published in D. Slottje (ed.), Advances in econometrics, Income Distribution and Scientific Methodology, Physica-Verlag, 1999, pp. 331-344

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