Poverty and Time

Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D'Ambrosio

No wp-2010-074, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We examine the measurement of individual poverty in an intertemporal context. Our aim is to capture the importance of persistence in a state of poverty and we characterize a corresponding individual intertemporal poverty measure. Our first axiom requires that intertemporal poverty is identical to static poverty in the degenerate single-period case. The remaining two properties express decomposability requirements within poverty spells and across spells in order to reflect the persistence issue.

Keywords: Aggregation operators; Equality and inequality; Index numbers (Economics); Poverty measurement; Methodology (Poverty) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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