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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Main Author: Datt, Gaurav
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35396