Holdings: Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that 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...

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Main Authors:	Brunori, Paolo, Ferreira, Francisco, Lugo, Maria Ana, Peragine, Vito
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOMES CHANGES IN POVERTY CONFLICT CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES COUNTERFACTUAL CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES DENSITY FUNCTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIMENSIONAL POVERTY DISPOSABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTION EFFECT DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC POLICY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL APPLICATION EMPIRICAL RESULTS EX-ANTE INEQUALITY EXCHANGE RATES HEADCOUNT POVERTY HIGH COST HOUSEHOLD HEADS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD NEEDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME INCOME DIFFERENCES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INCREASE INCOME LEVELS INCOME POVERTY INCOME TRANSFER INCOME-POVERTY INCREASE POVERTY INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INEQUALITY AVERSION INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT LABOR MARKET MAXIMUM INCOME MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MEASURING INEQUALITY MINIMUM LEVEL POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COUNTRY POOR INDIVIDUALS POPULATION COMPOSITION POPULATION SHARE POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY GAP POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDEX POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LEVEL POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RANKINGS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY STATUS POVERTY THRESHOLD PUBLIC ECONOMICS RELATIVE POVERTY SOCIAL POLICY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18674559/opportunity-sensitive-poverty-measurement http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16944

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18674559/opportunity-sensitive-poverty-measurement
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16944

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

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