Chakravarty, Satya R.; Silber, Jacques; Chattopadhyay, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015
the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line … and the reference income, where the weights depend on the policy maker.s preferences for aggregating the two components …