Seth, S orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6977 and Santos, ME (2019) On the Interaction Between Focus and Distributional Properties in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Social Indicators Research, 145 (2). pp. 503-521. ISSN 0303-8300
Abstract
In the multidimensional poverty measurement literature, most measures satisfy the deprivation focus property, which means that they disregard any improvement in non-deprived achievements. Such measures cannot satisfy strong distributional properties as traditionally defined, because the distributional transformations among the poor are allowed to take place among their non-deprived achievements. We formally address this incompatibility and propose a set of alternative definitions of distributional properties that restrict distributional transformations to take place only among deprived achievements. This alternative definition allows discerning within the set of measures that satisfy the deprivation focus property, those that are strongly sensitive to distributional transformations from those that are not. With this new lens, we review some of the most prominent multidimensional poverty measures proposed in the literature and illustrate how measures within the same class as well as measures across different classes can be discerned from each other based on the alternative definitions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Poverty focus; Deprivation focus; Multidimensional poverty measurement; Transfer property; Rearrangement property; Distributional analysis; Censored achievements |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2019 10:54 |
Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2019 08:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11205-019-02110-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142793 |
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