Poverty Indices Revisited
| Autor: | Pierre Mendy, Kern O. Kymn, Eugene Kouassi, Diaraf Seck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Theoretical Economics Letters. :129-133 |
| ISSN: | 2162-2086 2162-2078 |
| DOI: | 10.4236/tel.2011.13027 |
| Popis: | In this paper, a new optimization-based approach to constructing a poverty index is considered. From a general perspective, first and second order conditions based on a general poverty intensity function are derived. Then using specific intensity functions defined by [1,3] respectively, we specify related necessary and sufficient conditions and the underlying poverty indices. An extension based on a large class of intensity function is also investigated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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