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Ethically Flexible Measures of Poverty
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1983
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Income JusticeDevelopment EconomicsEducationIncome DistributionPoverty ReductionAbsolute PovertyWelfare EconomicsPovertyTransfer EarningsPoverty AlleviationEconomic InequalityPublic PolicyEconomicsPoverty MeasurementBusinessLow Income Developing CountryRepresentative IncomeFlexible MeasuresNew Measures
Abstract This paper introduces new measures of both relative and absolute poverty using the notion of representative income of a community corresponding to the censored income distribution. These new measures satisfy the monotonicity and transfer axioms proposed by Sen (1976) in all cases.