On the deprivation-sensitive measurement of poverty

Hajdu, Ottó (1999) On the deprivation-sensitive measurement of poverty. Hungarian Statistical Review, 77 (SN3). pp. 15-22. ISSN 0039-0690

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Abstract

Measuring the overall degree of poverty in a society, any poverty index is desired to depend on the feeling of relative deprivation of the poor. Investigating this problem, present paper deals with the sensitivity of the overall poverty measurement to the change in the overall degree of relative deprivation felt by the poor. According to the approach applied, a decrease in the overall degree of relative deprivation is considered ceteris paribus as a poverty measurement reducing factor no matter what additional change occurred in the income configuration of the poor. The paper discusses a poverty measure which explicitly involves the value of an overall deprivation index of the poor and hence is deprivation sensitive in the sense described above.

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