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Normative choices and tradeoffs when measuring poverty over time
- Abstract:
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This paper examines the aggregation of an indicator of wellbeing over time and across people to measure poverty. We characterise the general form of an intertemporal poverty measure under mild normative principles and show that it must embody an unambiguous ordering of possible trajectories of an individual’s wellbeing. We motivate further normative principles and examine their consequences for the form of the measure, showing that some measures suggested in the literature are not consiste...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Economic and Social Research Council
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Department for International Development
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Robertson Foundation
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UNICEF
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Praus
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Publisher's website
- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Paper number:
- 56
- ISBN:
- 9781907194429
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9467
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- Copyright © Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative 2012. This publication is copyright, however it may be reproduced without fee for teaching or non-profit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, and will normally be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for re-use in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from OPHI and may be subject to a fee.
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