Vega, Mª Casilda Lasso de la; Urrutia, Ana; Sarachu, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
This paper aims to explore properties that guarantee that multidimensional poverty indices are sensitive to the distribution among the poor, one of the basic features of a poverty index. We introduce a generalization of the monotonicity sensitivity axiom which demands that, in the...