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Distribution Sensitive Multidimensional Development Indices

Villar, Antonio - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2009

This paper provides an elementary characterization of a family of multi-dimensional development indices that allows introducing distributive considerations. It consists of the generalized mean of the egalitarian equivalent values of the different dimensions. The key property that defines that...

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A Household-Based Distribution-Sensitive Human Development Index: An Empirical Application to Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru

Lopez-Calva, Luis; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - In: Social Indicators Research 109 (2012) 3, pp. 395-411

surveys and census data, this paper proposes a straightforward methodology to estimate a household-based distribution-sensitive …

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The Impact of Transfers and Taxes on Alternative Poverty Indexes

Defina, Robert; Thanawala, Kishor - In: Review of Social Economy 59 (2001) 4, pp. 395-416

alternative strategy, one theoretically more appealing and complete, is to rely on distribution-sensitive indexes (Sen 1976, 1981 …

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Distribution Sensitive Measures of Poverty in the United States

Bishop, John; Formby, John; Zheng, Buhong - In: Review of Social Economy 57 (1999) 3, pp. 306-343

official US poverty statistics. Sen's distribution sensitive index of poverty and each of its components are estimated at … several distinct poverty thresholds for the period 1961-1996. Distribution sensitive measures of urban poverty are corrected …

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