IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/20574_45.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The fuzzy approach to poverty measurement

In: Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation

Author

Listed:
  • Gianni Betti
  • Antonella D’Agostino
  • Achille Lemmi
  • Laura Neri

Abstract

This chapter aims at presenting the main characteristics and the contribution of the fuzzy set approach to poverty measurement. The idea behind the approach is to use the so-called membership function to respond to the need to consider the imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness of poverty when measuring it. Firstly, considering poverty measures based on a monetary variable, several membership functions, based on distance or on the distribution function, are presented with their features. Then, considering that the fuzzy sets approach is also a valid instrument to measure multidimensional poverty based on generic deprivation items, the paper presents the peculiarities of the multidimensional measures and the fundamental steps to obtain multidimensional indicators. Particular attention is also paid to the Chakravarty axiomatic approach. Finally, a brief section is dedicated to the fuzzy longitudinal measures of deprivation for analysing persistence and transitions in the state of poverty across time.

Suggested Citation

  • Gianni Betti & Antonella D’Agostino & Achille Lemmi & Laura Neri, 2023. "The fuzzy approach to poverty measurement," Chapters, in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, chapter 45, pages 489-500, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20574_45
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800883451/9781800883451.00061.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    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:elg:eechap:20574_45. 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: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    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.