How Sensitive Is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?
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Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement
Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also to differences in opportunities faced by people with different pre-determined characteristics, such as race or ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economía
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1533-6239
DOI: 10.1353/eco.2018.0007