Foster, James; Greer, Joel; Thorbecke, Erik - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2010
Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke [54]. The present study provides a retrospective view of the FGT paper and the subsequent literature, as well as a brief discussion of future directions. We identify three...