PREMATURE MORTALITY AND POVERTY MEASUREMENT

Premature mortality and poverty measurement

There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty. The death of a poor person reduces poverty according to these measures. This surely violates our basic intuitions of how poverty measures should behave. It cannot be right in concept that differentially higher mortality among the poor serves to reduce poverty. This paper begins the task of developing poverty measures that are ...

Premature Mortality and Poverty Measurement By Ravi Kanbur and Diganta Mukherjee 1

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

Poverty and its measurement

Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα. Our identification step employs two forms of cutoff: one within each dimension to determine whether a person is deprived in that dimension, and a second across dimensions that ...