TITLE:
Dynamic Poverty Measures
AUTHORS:
Eugene Kouassi, Pierre Mendy, Diaraf Seck, Kern O. Kymn
KEYWORDS:
A general Poverty Index, Necessary and Sufficient Conditions, Other Indices, An Extension
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.1 No.3,
November
3,
2011
ABSTRACT: In this paper one considers a general approach to construct a poverty index. In particular from a general perspective, first and second order conditions based on a general poverty intensity function are derived. Then using specific intensity functions defined by Sen, FGT and Shorrock respectively, one specifies related first and second conditions. An extension based on a large class of intensity function is also investigated.