Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126330 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/002
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line and the reference income, where the weights depend on the policy maker's preferences for aggregating the two components. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and India.
Subjects: 
absolute poverty
amalgam threshold
India
People's Republic of China
poverty line
relative poverty
JEL: 
D31
D63
I32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-887-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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