Betti, Gianni; Cheli, Bruno; Verma, Vijay - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
When poverty is viewed as a matter of degree, i.e. as a fuzzy measure, two additional aspects are introduced into the analysis compared with the conventional poor/non-poor dichotomous approach: (i) the choice of membership functions i.e. quantitative specification of individuals' or households'...