Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. The commonly used counting measures violate the strong transfer axiom, which requires regressive transfers to be unambiguously poverty increasing, and they are also invariant to cha...
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2021
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35396 |