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Poverty measurement : the critical comparison value

Tungodden, Bertil
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1998-11
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Abstract
The basic problem in poverty measurement is how to weigh the income of different

groups. This is a normative problem on which people differ in opinion, and hence we

should seek a way of dealing with the issue that takes into account this plurality. In the

paper, we suggest an approach to poverty measurement which avoids incorporating any

particular normative position on how to weigh the interests of various poor groups, but

rather reports on changes in poverty by making explicit the link between various

normative positions and ordinal conclusions in poverty measurement. Within this

framework, by applying a generalized version of Decartes’ Rule of Signs, we present results that should provide useful guidance in a poverty comparison.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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1998:23

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