Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement

Aggregate Poverty Measures

The way poverty is measured is important for an understanding of what has happened to poverty as well as for anti-poverty policy evaluation. Sen’s (1976) pathfinding work has motivated many researchers to focus on the way poverty should be measured. A poverty measure, argued by Sen, should satisfy certain properties or axioms and the desirability of a poverty measure should be evaluated by thes...

The Measurement of Dynamic Poverty with Geographical and Inter

The author acknowledges a TMR grant of the European Union. I am grateful to the Ministry of Planning of Rwanda which provides me with the data, and in which I worked from 1984 to 1988 as a technical adviser for the French Cooperation and Development Ministry. I thank participants in seminars at University of Oxford, INRAIDEI at Toulouse, and STICERD at the London School of Economics for their c...

Poverty measurement (in India): Defining group-specific poverty lines or taking preferences into account?∗

We study absolute income poverty measurement when agents differ in preferences and face different prices. The difficulty arising from price heterogeneity is typically solved using equivalent income, but the choice of the reference price vector remains arbitrary. We provide a way to solve this arbitrariness problem by making the poverty measure consistent with preferences: an agent qualifies as ...

On the Measurement of Poverty

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