Poverty rankings of opportunity profiles
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We address the problem of ranking distributions of opportunity sets in terms of poverty. In order to accomplish this task, we identify a suitable notion of ‘multidimensional poverty line’ and we characterize axiomatically several poverty rankings of opportunity profiles. Among them, the Head-Count and the OpportunityGap poverty rankings, which are the natural counterparts of the most widely used income poverty indices.
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