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Economics of inequality

a poverty measure combining the share of people who are poor, the size of their shortfall and inequality among the poor.

In economics of inequality, Sen poverty index refers to a poverty measure combining the share of people who are poor, the size of their shortfall and inequality among the poor. This meaning comes from Sen (1976) in Econometrica.[1]

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References

Sen, A. (1976). Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement. Econometrica, 44(2), 219. https://doi.org/10.2307/1912718

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