A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality

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arithmetic means, income standards, 63 Atkinson, Anthony class of inequality measures, 16–17, 22, 91–93 general class of welfare functions, 39 inequality measures by geographic regions, 204–7, 205t theorem, 24

B between-group inequality measures, 20, 21, 239 bimodal density, 51

C calibration properties, income standards, 54 cardinal welfare indicator, 228 categorical variables, 228–29 cdf. See cumulative distribution function censored distribution income vector, 113 censored welfare function, 134 characteristics of household head headcount ratio by, 184–86, 185t mean and median per capita consumption expenditure, growth and Gini coefficient by, 184t population distribution across quintiles by, 187–88, 187t standard of living and inequality by, 183–84 chronic poverty measures, 229–30 CHUC. See Clark-Hemming-UlphChakravarty (CHUC) family of indices circumstances, identity variables, 239 Clark-Hemming-Ulph-Chakravarty (CHUC) family of indices defined, 33 elasticity to per capita consumption expenditures, 275–76, 275t poverty measures, 125–26, 203–4, 203t poverty orderings of, 40–41 sensitivity to poverty line, 277–78, 277t coefficient of variation (CV), 21, 97–98 Commission on Growth and Development, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development, The, 2008, 9

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components approach, Jalan and Ravallion, 229–30 compositional properties, inequality measures, 81 consistency properties subgroup, 37–38 consumption expenditures currency in ADePT, 156 elasticity of FGT poverty indices to per capita, 199–201, 199t elasticity of poverty to, 275–76, 275t mean and median per capita, 158–59, 158t mean and median per capita growth and, 183–84, 184t quantile PCEs and Quantile ratios of per capita, 165–67, 166t, 176–78, 177t survey data, 46–47 consumption regressions, 217–20, 217t counting measures, 29 cumulative distribution function (cdf) defined, 52–53, 52f as income distribution, 5, 50 curves. See also generalized Lorenz curves; poverty curves general mean growth, 79–81, 80f general mean of urban per capita expenditure, Georgia, 289–90, 290f growth incidence, 13, 76–77, 77f, 105 income standard growth, 12–13, 26, 75–81 Kuznets, 19 Lorenz, 23–25, 101–3, 102f, 213–15, 214f custom tables, ADePT, 268–69 CV (coefficient of variation), 21, 97–98

D dashboard of dimension-specific deprivation measures, 234 of dimensional indicators, 235–36 datasets data and variable details, ADePT, 259–61 specifying ADePT, 249–52 variables, ADePT, 258–59 decomposability property. See also additive decomposability properties; additively decomposable properties geographic targeting and, 132–33 subgroup consistency and, 37–38


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