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Economics of inequality

a family of poverty measures that weight how far each poor person falls below the poverty line, including headcount, gap and severity.

In economics of inequality, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index refers to a family of poverty measures that weight how far each poor person falls below the poverty line, including headcount, gap and severity. This meaning comes from Foster (1984) in Econometrica.[1]

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References

Foster, J., Greer, J., & Thorbecke, E. (1984). A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures. Econometrica, 52(3), 761. https://doi.org/10.2307/1913475

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