Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2008
In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz … in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …