Many authors have insisted on the necessity of defining poverty as a multi-dimensional concept rather than relying on … deprivation into the practical definition and measurement of poverty. Existing attempts along that direction consist of … aggregagting various attributes into a single index through some arbitrary function and defining a poverty line and associated …

Relatively little research has been conducted until now on the multidimensional aspect of poverty measurement, that is … poverty measures defined on various income and non-income attributes and their gaps with respect to pre-specified subsistence … levels. The present paper investigates the properties of a family of poverty measures which generalizes the well-known single …