IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bes/jnlbes/v7y1989i4p475-81.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Poverty Measurement: An Index Related to a Theil Measure of Inequality

Author

Listed:
  • Blackburn, McKinley L

Abstract

A major problem that arises in measuring poverty is the adequate expression, in a poverty index, of the information from the incomes of individuals below the poverty line. This article evaluates several poverty indexes on the basis of their ability to satisfy five properties desirable for a poverty index. The only index that satisfies all five properties is one related to a Theil measure of inequality. Simulations show that this index and an index related to the coefficient of variation provide appropriate ranks for the desirability of various algorithms for transferring income to the poor.

Suggested Citation

  • Blackburn, McKinley L, 1989. "Poverty Measurement: An Index Related to a Theil Measure of Inequality," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association, vol. 7(4), pages 475-481, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bes:jnlbes:v:7:y:1989:i:4:p:475-81
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joan R Rodgers & John L Rodgers, 1991. "The Measurement of Chronic and Transitory Poverty: with Application to the United States," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_55, Levy Economics Institute.
    2. Walter Bossert & Susumu Cato & Kohei Kamaga, 2022. "Generalized Poverty-gap Orderings," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 164(1), pages 189-215, November.
    3. Tomson Ogwang, 2022. "The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 20(4), pages 951-973, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bes:jnlbes:v:7:y:1989:i:4:p:475-81. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F. Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jbes/index.cfm?fuseaction=main .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.