Bosmans, Kristof; Esposito, Lucio; Lambert, Peter - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
A particular scale-invariant index of poverty is subjected to careful analysis. This leads to a new perspective, not seen before, on the family of subgroup-consistent and scale-invariant poverty indices. Parametric families of new poverty indices are presented which offer the analyst a degree of...