requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual … incomes, or a distribution with the smallest mean that is compatible with a complete absence of poverty). Real analysis offers … ; Canberra distance function ; poverty ; inequality …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …