Logo
Munich Personal RePEc Archive

Measuring inequality of poverty: theory and an application to India

Singh, Ashish (2010): Measuring inequality of poverty: theory and an application to India.

[thumbnail of MPRA_paper_26770.pdf]
Preview
PDF
MPRA_paper_26770.pdf

Download (165kB) | Preview

Abstract

The commonly used poverty indices measure the overall level of poverty in a society but fail to capture the differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups. This paper proposes a new measure, Inequality of Poverty Index (similar to dissimilarity index in the literature on inequality of opportunity) which captures inequality in distribution of poverty across different subgroups. It can be used to determine the major socioeconomic factors/characteristics/circumstances causing between-group disparity in poverty and effect of a specific factor on poverty relative to other factors and time. The paper also provides an application of the index and potential policy implications.

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact us: mpra@ub.uni-muenchen.de

This repository has been built using EPrints software.

MPRA is a RePEc service hosted by Logo of the University Library LMU Munich.