Gottlieb, Daniel; Fruman, Alexander - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The multitude of available poverty measures can confuse a policy maker who wants to evaluate a poverty-reduction policy …. We proposes a rule for ranking poverty measures by use of the food-gap, calculated as the cost-difference between a … of a family under economic stress. A household is identified as ‘truly’ poor or non-poor by a given poverty measure if …