THE PROPERTIESOF THE WATTS’ POVERTY INDEXUNDER LOGNORMALITY

A priori knowledge about the shape of living standards distribution has notbeen fully exploited in the literature to investigate properties of poverty indices.The method we propose is to exploit credible distributional assumptions to: generateadditional properties for poverty indices; relate the latters to the incidenceof poverty and to an inequality index; enrich the sensibility analysis of povertyindices; derive new families of relative poverty lines...derived.

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Year of publication:	1998-09-01
Authors:	Muller, Christophe
Institutions:	University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics
Subject:	Produkt \| Lebensstandard \| Living standard \| Distributionstheorie \| distribution \| Armut \| poverty

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Series:	The University of Nottingham / School of Economics - discussion papers Discussion Paper ; 99/36
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; Sociological and psychological aspects ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Product policy ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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