Download This PaperThe Asymptotic Theory of the Kakwani Class of Poverty Measures
9 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2007
Date Written: July 2007
Abstract
Given independent observations of the income or the expense variable of some population, with underlying distribution G, given a poverty line Z, we study the Kakwani class of poverty measures. This measure is one of the most important tools for monitoring poverty in Economics. Here, we complete our asymptotic normality theory for poverty measures by a special study for the Kakwani index and for the Sen measure which is a special case of Kakwani's indexes.
Keywords: poverty indexes, empirical distributions, asymptotic distribution, estimation and simulations
JEL Classification: C43, C00, C13, C14
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Lo, Gane Samb and Sall, Serigne Touba and Seck, Cheikh Tidiane, The Asymptotic Theory of the Kakwani Class of Poverty Measures (July 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1004392 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1004392
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