been developed. However, one of the limitations of the existing indices is that they only provide an overall measurement … different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between … any groups with different income level, for example, the richest group and the poorest group. The new index provides …

been developed. However, one of the limitations of the existing indices is that they only provide an overall measurement … different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between … any groups with different income level, for example, the richest group and the poorest group. The new index provides …

In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …