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sensitivity. See also transfer sensitivity properties analysis of, 199–207 distributions, sensitive measures, 236–37 distributions, sensitive poverty measures, 34–35, 129–30, 133–34 headcount ratio and sensitivity to chosen poverty line, 201–3, 202t to poverty line, 277–78, 277t SES (socio-economic status), 20 single welfare indicator, 238–39 skewness density function and, 158 of income distributions, 51–52 slope, relative, 24 smoothed distributions, 20 socio-economic status (SES), 20 space, poverty assessment of, 2 space selection, evaluating poverty with, 46 spells method, 230 squared coefficient of variation, half, 17 squared gap measures poverty measures, 38–39, 121–23 poverty severity curve and, 139, 139f pros and cons of, 127 squared gap vector, 30 SST. See Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index standard errors, ADePT, 265–66 standard of living across population, inequality and, 158–59, 171–72, 171t, 183–84, 184t standardized general mean curves of Georgia, 215–16, 216f standards, multidimensional, 234–38, 236–37 stochastic dominance. See dominance properties strong transfer, 150n13 studies, income standards, 9 subgroups consistency properties, 37–38, 57–58, 81, 85–86, 112 contribution to overall poverty, 38 decomposability properties, 37–38 inequality levels, 21–22 population consistency, 10, 22 poverty analysis across other population, 183 poverty measures, 132–33
subnational regions analysis at level of, 170 decomposition of headcount ratio, 181–83, 181t distribution of population across quintiles by, 180–81, 180t headcount ratio in, 172–73, 172t mean and media per capita income, growth and Gini coefficient in, 171–72, 171t partial means and partial means ratios in, 178–79, 178t poverty gap measure and contribution to overall poverty, 174–75, 174t squared gap measures and contribution to overall poverty, 175–76, 175t survey data, consumer expenditure, 46–47 symmetry properties income standards, 54–55 inequality measures, 14, 81–82 poverty measures, 30, 107
T table cells, ADePT, 156 tables and graphs, ADePT, 254–56, 268–69 targeting, additive decomposability and geographic, 132–33 targeting exercise, poverty measures influencing, 128–30 Theil’s first measure, 18, 24 Theil’s second measure, 17, 22, 97, 282–84, 283t third-order stochastic dominance, 39 total expenditure, 47 transfer neutral, 34 transfer principle properties income standards, 54, 56–57 inequality measures, 8–9, 14, 81, 83–85 poverty measures, 110–11 regressive and progressive, 56 strong transfer as, 150n13 transfer sensitivity properties inequality measures, 14, 20–21, 81, 84–85 poverty measures, 31, 111 transformation, monotonic, 21 twin income standards, 15–16 twin-standard view of inequality, 25, 103–4
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