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Are social exclusion and poverty measures interrelated? : a study with Spanish data

Sánchez, Cristina; Cortiñas, Pedro; Calvo, José Luís - 2012

the same time, poor and deprived. In order to improve deprivation index we substitute EUROSTAT methodology by Fuzzy method … poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …

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International comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference

Osberg, Lars; Xu, Kuan - 1997

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …

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Statistical Inferences for Poverty Measures with Relative Poverty Rates

Zheng, Buhong - 1997

Relative poverty lines such as one-half of median income have been widely used in poverty comparisons. The U.S. government has also been urged to adopt the notion of relative poverty lines. This paper contributes to the literature by developing statistical inferences for testing poverty measures...

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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