… on alternative poverty measures. Could different views about the choice of poverty measure
… of judgments affecting all aspects of measuring poverty and that we should recognize this …

… poverty measure. The generalization is motivated by the failure of Sen's poverty measure to
… A numerical method of computing the alternative poverty measures is provided along with …

… poor-in a context where the only alternative to such a transfer is the status quo, but in the
case considered here, the policy maker may have some egalitarian alternatives. Like all P,'s, p …

… The third alternative might look like a nice compromise, but it is, I believe, based on a
confusion. The scale of "equivalent adults" indicates conversion factors to be used to find out how …

… It is well known that as an index of poverty this has serious shortcomings-in particular, it is
insensitive to how far below the poverty line the incomes of the poor fall. Alternative indices …

… measure of MP. The important implication of this study is that the choice of measures does
matter in ex-post poverty … not as much in the identification of ex-ante vulnerability to poverty. …

… International poverty research has increasingly underscored the need … measure poverty.
Largely embraced in Europe and elsewhere, this has not had much impact on the way poverty is …

… In order to overcome the above drawbacks we suggest a different approach to the measurement
of poverty, following the theory of fuzzy sets (Zadeh 1965; Dubois and Prade 1980. See …

… on poverty measurement, I argue that ideal measures of poverty should: (1) measure … ,
this article advocates for three alternative poverty indices: the interval measure, the ordinal …

… A poverty measure, argued by Sen, should satisfy certain properties or axioms and the desirability
of a poverty measure … axioms and develop alternative poverty measures. The objective …