Aggregate Poverty Measures

By Buhong Zheng. 2002

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Statistical inference for poverty measures with relative poverty lines (2001, background): “For a co mplete discussion of the poverty axioms, see, for instance, Zheng (1997) .”
Poverty and disability: A vicious circle? Evidence from Afghanistan and Zambia (2012, background): “…the segment of the population that may be considered poor, and the measurement of poverty and inequality, through an aggregation of household characteristics into an overall indicator satisfying certain properties (Sen, 1976, Foster and others 1984, Pyatt, 1987; Foster and Sen, 1997, Zheng, 1997).”
The Measurement of Economic Inequality (2009, methodology): “2 Poverty measurement methods are surveyed by Zheng (1997) .”
Multidimensional poverty and inequality (2014, neutral): “The actual functional forms of the poverty indices are determined by the combination of chosen axioms, many of which parallel those considered in the univariate analysis (e.g. Zheng, 1997).”
Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty (2012, background): “There is a large literature on alternative measures; for a survey see Zheng (1997).”
The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010, background): “22See, for example, Foster [55], Hagenaars [73], Seidl [115], and Zheng [139].”
Measuring Fuel Poverty: General Considerations and Application to German Household Data (2013, positive): “is additively decomposable with population share weights), and is one of the most comprehensive aggregated poverty measures (Zheng, 1997).”
The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty (2003, background): “5 For discussion of properties for a single dimensional poverty index, see among others, Foster [11], Donaldson and Weymark [8], Cowell [7], Chakravarty [4], Foster and Shorrocks [13] and Zheng [28].”