Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement

1 March 1976

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Econometrica

Vol. 44 (2) , 219
https://doi.org/10.2307/1912718

Abstract

The primary aim of this paper is to propose a new measure of poverty, which should avoid some of the shortcomings of the measures currently in use. An axiomatic...

Keywords

ORDINAL APPROACH
SHORTCOMINGS
AXIOMATIC
POVERTY
APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT
PRIMARY AIM
NEW MEASURE
AVOID
MEASUREMENT THE PRIMARY