Caramuta, Diego M.; Contiggiani, Federico - In: Fuzzy Economic Review XI (2006) 1, pp. 37-55
This paper postulates two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this...