Poverty decomposition in incidence, intensity and inequalitya review

  1. Oihana Aristondo 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics

ISSN: 0210-1173

Year of publication: 2018

Issue: 225

Pages: 109-130

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7866/HPE-RPE.18.2.4 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Every poverty measure should be expressed as a function of three poverty components; incidence, intensity and inequality among the poor. If it is possible, the sources of changes in poverty will be easier to compute, since we are able to know the contribution of each component to the total poverty change. In this paper, firstly we do a review of the existing poverty decompositions in these three terms. Then, we find new decompositions for some poverty measures and additional ones for others. Summarizing, decompositions in the three terms of poverty can be found for almost all the poverty measures.

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Funding information

O. Aristondo gratefully acknowledge the funding support of Departamento de Educación, Política Lingüistica y Cultura del Gobierno Vasco under the project IT568-13 and the funding support of the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia under the project ECO2015-67519, cofunded by FEDER and UPV/EHU, UFI 11/46 BETS.

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